12-letter words containing f, i, r, e, s, c
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- 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.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pecksniffery — hypocritically and unctuously affecting benevolence or high moral principles.
- prespecified — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- reichsfuhrer — the title of the chief of the Schutzstaffel.
- safecracking — the act of breaking into a safe
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- 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-service — the serving of oneself in a restaurant, shop, gas station, or other facility, without the aid of a waiter, clerk, attendant, etc.
- 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
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- space-filler — a short article of little or no importance written to fill space in a magazine or newspaper
- 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 force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- 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
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- 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.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- underspecify — to mention or name specifically or definitely; state in detail: He did not specify the amount needed.
- unfranchised — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- vociferously — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa