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12-letter words containing f, i, c, e, s

  • safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
  • safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
  • saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
  • sales office — the office or room of the department of a company responsible for selling its goods or services
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • scafell pike — a mountain in NW England, in Cumberland: highest peak in England. 3210 feet (978 meters).
  • scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
  • scared stiff — terrified
  • schrieffer's — John Robert, born 1931, U.S. physicist: Nobel prize 1972.
  • scire facias — a writ requiring the party against whom it is brought to show cause why a judgment, letters patent, etc., should not be executed, vacated, or annulled.
  • scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
  • sea crawfish — spiny lobster
  • sea crayfish — spiny lobster.
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
  • self-finance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
  • self-induced — induced by oneself or itself.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-service — the serving of oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc.
  • selfie stick — a rod on which a camera or mobile phone may be mounted in order to take a photograph of oneself
  • semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
  • semiofficial — having some degree of official authority.
  • service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
  • service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • significance — importance; consequence: the significance of the new treaty.
  • siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
  • soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • space flight — journey into outer space
  • space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
  • specifically — in a definite or precise manner: The suspect was not specifically named in the report. More specifically, you will be responsible for half the total cost.
  • speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
  • stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
  • stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
  • subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
  • subjectified — to make subjective.
  • subjectifies — to make subjective.
  • sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
  • suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
  • surface mail — the system, especially a government postal system, of sending mail by truck, train, or boat, as opposed to airmail.
  • swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
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