12-letter words containing f, i, n, e, s, r
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misinference — Incorrect inference.
- misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
- neckerchiefs — Plural form of neckerchief.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- overfineness — excessive fineness
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- pfund series — a series of lines in the infrared spectrum of hydrogen.
- pridefulness — a high or inordinate opinion of one's own dignity, importance, merit, or superiority, whether as cherished in the mind or as displayed in bearing, conduct, etc.
- prison fever — typhus.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- refreshingly — having the power to restore freshness, vitality, energy, etc.: a refreshing nap.
- refurnishing — to supply (a house, room, etc.) with necessary furniture, carpets, appliances, etc.
- renfrewshire — a historic county in SW Scotland.
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
- safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
- 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-serving — preoccupied with one's own interests, often disregarding the truth or the interests, well-being, etc., of others.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption