12-letter words containing f, i, s, o, n, t
- fuliginosity — The condition or quality of being fuliginous; sootiness.
- fulminations — Plural form of fulmination.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- gasification — Action of gasifying.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- infatuations — Plural form of infatuation.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- infestations — Plural form of infestation.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflationism — the policy or practice of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- inflationist — an advocate of inflation through expansion of currency or bank deposits.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- oasification — The process of restoring water, soil, and plant life to an environment that has been degraded by soil erosion.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- 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.
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- 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
- photo finish — a finish of a race in which two or more contestants are so close to the finish line that reference to a photograph of the finish is necessary to determine the winner.
- 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.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.