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

  • self-priming — the powder or other material used to ignite a charge.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
  • self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-service — the serving of oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc.
  • self-serving — preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
  • self-sterile — incapable of self-fertilization.
  • self-worship — reverent honor and homage paid to God or a sacred personage, or to any object regarded as sacred.
  • seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • 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
  • shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
  • shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • shirt-lifter — a homosexual
  • siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
  • silver frost — glaze (def 17).
  • simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
  • sir jeffreys — George (1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem) 1648–89, English jurist.
  • sixth former — student: 16-18
  • slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
  • soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
  • soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
  • solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
  • soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
  • square serif — a font of type having serifs with a weight equal to or greater than that of the main strokes. Compare Egyptian (def 5).
  • squirrelfish — any of several brightly colored, nocturnal fishes of the family Holocentridae, inhabiting shallow waters of tropical reefs, especially the reddish Holocentrus ascensionis of the West Indies, armed with sharp spines and scales.
  • stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
  • stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
  • 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.
  • strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
  • strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
  • subfertility — below-average fertility
  • sudoriferous — bearing or secreting sweat.
  • suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
  • sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
  • 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
  • testificator — a person who witnesses
  • the fair sex — women collectively
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