12-letter words containing f, i, l, e, s, r
- self-fertile — capable of self-fertilization.
- self-insurer — one insured under self-insurance.
- 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.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- 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.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- 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.
- the flickers — the cinema
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- viruliferous — carrying a virus
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.