12-letter words containing f, i, s, c, o, t
- ossification — the act or process of ossifying.
- 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.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- post-fascist — of or relating to various right-wing political parties in Europe which espouse a modified form of fascism and which take part in constitutional politics
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
- satisfactory — giving or affording satisfaction; fulfilling all demands or requirements: a satisfactory solution.
- scarificator — a person who scarifies.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- sinification — to Sinicize.
- soft science — any of the specialized fields or disciplines, as psychology, sociology, anthropology, or political science, that interpret human behavior, institutions, society, etc., on the basis of scientific investigations for which it may be difficult to establish strictly measurable criteria.
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spiflication — rough treatment
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- sub-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- tonic sol-fa — a system of singing characterized by emphasis upon tonality or key relationship, in which tones are indicated by the initial letters of the syllables of the sol-fa system rather than by conventional staff notation.
- 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.
- unscottified — not Scottish; taken out of a Scottish context
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- young fustic — fustet (def 2).