12-letter words containing f, i, s, t
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand-offish — If you say that someone is stand-offish, you mean that they behave in a formal and rather unfriendly way.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- 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.
- 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.
- stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- strike force — a military force armed and trained for attack.
- strobiliform — shaped as a strobilus
- student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- stuffing nut — a large nut that is tightened to compress the packing in a stuffing box
- stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a 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
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- subjectified — to make subjective.
- subjectifies — to make subjective.
- sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sulfite pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfite process.
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the flickers — the cinema
- the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- the sniffles — a cold in the head
- thiosulfuric — of or derived from thiosulfuric acid.
- thirty-first — next after the thirtieth; being the ordinal number for 31.
- this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
- tight-fisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to fight shy — If you fight shy of something, you try very hard to avoid it.