12-letter words containing f, i, s, o
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pack of lies — false account
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- 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
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- 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.
- piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- 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.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- 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
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- 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.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
- proof spirit — an alcoholic liquor, or mixture of alcohol and water, containing a standard amount of alcohol. In the U.S. proof spirit has a specific gravity of .93353 (containing one half of its volume of alcohol of a specific gravity of .7939 at 60° F). In Britain proof spirit has a specific gravity of .91984.
- pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- quasi-famous — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- redispose of — to dispose of again
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- rs flip-flop — SR flip-flop
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sales office — the office or room of the department of a company responsible for selling its goods or services
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- 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.