12-letter words containing f, l, s
- cliffhangers — Plural form of cliffhanger.
- climbingfish — climbing perch.
- close-fisted — very careful with money; mean
- close-reefed — having most or all of the sail reefs taken in.
- closefitting — fitting tightly, esp. in such a way as to show the contours of the body
- cloud forest — a forest, usually near coastal mountain peaks in tropical regions, that has an almost constant cloud cover, even during the dry season
- colorfulness — the quality of being colourful
- column shift — A column shift is a gearshift lever mounted on the steering column.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- complexifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of complexify.
- confessional — A confessional is the small room in a church where Christians, especially Roman Catholics, go to confess their sins.
- conflictions — to come into collision or disagreement; be contradictory, at variance, or in opposition; clash: The account of one eyewitness conflicted with that of the other. My class conflicts with my going to the concert.
- coral fungus — any of a group of brightly colored fungi having erect, branching fruiting bodies that resemble coral.
- counterfoils — Plural form of counterfoil.
- coxless four — a boat for four oarsman and no cox
- craftspeople — Craftspeople are people who make things skilfully with their hands.
- crimson flag — a southern African plant, Schizostylis coccinea, of the iris family, having tubular red flowers.
- crystal form — a symmetrical set of planes in space, associated with a crystal, having the same symmetry as the crystal class
- cupuliferous — of or relating to the Cupuliferae family of trees which includes oak, hazel, chestnut, etc
- cut fastball — a fastball that breaks somewhat like a curve ball, due to increased pressure from the tip of the middle finger.
- cutlass fish — any compressed, ribbonlike fish of the genus Trichiurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- cyclic shift — a transfer of digits from one end of a machine word to the other, retaining the same order in both places.
- damselfishes — Plural form of damselfish.
- declassified — to remove the classification from (information, a document, etc.) that restricts access in terms of secrecy, confidentiality, etc. Compare classification (def 5).
- declassifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of declassify.
- demulsifying — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- dental floss — Dental floss is a type of thread that is used to clean the gaps between your teeth.
- deny oneself — to do without desired things
- desulfurized — Simple past tense and past participle of desulfurize.
- difficulties — the fact or condition of being difficult.
- disaffiliate — to sever affiliation with; disassociate: He disaffiliated himself from the political group he had once led.
- disdainfully — full of or showing disdain; scornful.
- disgracefull — Archaic form of disgraceful.
- disgustfully — in a disgustful manner
- disinflation — a period or process of slowing the rate of inflation.
- disqualified — Simple past tense and past participle of disqualify.
- disqualifier — One who, or that which, disqualifies.
- disqualifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of disqualify.
- disregardful — neglectful; careless.
- dissyllabify — to make disyllabic
- distastefull — Archaic form of distasteful.
- doloriferous — causing pain or sadness, dolorific
- dorsiflexion — flexion toward the back.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- dreadfulness — The characteristic of being dreadful.
- dreamfulness — the quality of being full of dreams
- dysfluencies — disfluency.
- ease oneself — to urinate or defecate
- east suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk county, in E England.