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12-letter words containing f, i, t, n, e, s

  • 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
  • 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.
  • rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
  • risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
  • safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
  • sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-antigen — autoantigen.
  • self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
  • self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
  • self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.
  • self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.
  • self-reliant — relying on oneself or on one's own powers, resources, etc.
  • self-tanning — cosmetic substance applied to the skin to simulate a suntan
  • self-tapping — (of a screw) cutting its own thread when screwed into a plain hole in a metal sheet
  • self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
  • semi-fiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
  • semifinalist — a participant or one qualified to participate in a semifinal.
  • semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
  • sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • seventy-five — a cardinal number, 70 plus 5.
  • sheath knife — a knife carried in a sheath.
  • 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.
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
  • stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
  • stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
  • stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
  • subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
  • subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
  • sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
  • suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • the sniffles — a cold in the head
  • titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
  • transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
  • transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
  • transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
  • unfittedness — the state of being unfitted
  • unsanctified — not sanctified
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