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12-letter words containing f, i, n, s

  • photo-finish — If the end of a race is a photo-finish, two or more of the competitors cross the finishing line so close together that a photograph of the finish has to be examined to decide who has won.
  • photofission — nuclear fission induced by the absorption of a high-energy photon.
  • pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
  • postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
  • 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.
  • pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • 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.
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • safe surfing — the practice of using security measures to protect one's computer while surfing the internet
  • safe-keeping — the act of keeping safe or the state of being kept safe; protection; care; custody.
  • 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
  • salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
  • saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
  • scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scorpionfish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • self-blinded — unable to see; lacking the sense of sight; sightless: a blind man.
  • 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-damning — causing incrimination: damning evidence.
  • self-dealing — financial transaction conducted on a personal, nonbusinesslike basis, as lending or borrowing of corporate money by a director.
  • self-defined — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
  • self-denying — the sacrifice of one's own desires; unselfishness.
  • self-disdain — to look upon or treat with contempt; despise; scorn.
  • self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
  • self-driving — (of a machine) operating without the guidance of a human.
  • self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
  • self-feeding — automatically supplying itself with what is needed, as a machine
  • self-filling — that fills or replenishes itself automatically
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