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12-letter words containing f, o, i, s, n

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • prolificness — producing offspring, young, fruit, etc., abundantly; highly fruitful: a prolific pear tree.
  • pussyfooting — behaving in an excessively cautious way
  • rainbow fish — guppy.
  • resiniferous — yielding resin.
  • rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
  • saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
  • salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
  • 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.
  • satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • satisfaction — an act of satisfying; fulfillment; gratification.
  • scorpion fly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
  • scorpionfish — any of several tropical and temperate marine scorpaenid fishes, especially members of the genus Scorpaena, many having venomous dorsal spines.
  • seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
  • self-closing — the end or conclusion, as of a speech.
  • self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
  • self-cooking — the act of a person or thing that cooks.
  • self-loading — noting or pertaining to an automatic or semiautomatic firearm.
  • self-locking — a device for securing a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.
  • self-mocking — to attack or treat with ridicule, contempt, or derision.
  • self-opinion — opinion of oneself, especially when unduly high.
  • self-proving — to establish the truth or genuineness of, as by evidence or argument: to prove one's claim.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
  • serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
  • set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
  • shaving foam — lather used for shaving
  • shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
  • significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
  • sinification — to Sinicize.
  • sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • soft landing — space vehicle
  • 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.
  • solifluction — creep (def 22a).
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
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