12-letter words containing f, o, i, s, n
- spiflication — rough treatment
- spongillafly — spongefly.
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- 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
- 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.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; 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.
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- tonic sol-fa — a system of singing characterized by emphasis upon tonality or key relationship, in which tones are indicated by the initial letters of the syllables of the sol-fa system rather than by conventional staff notation.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- unfastidious — not fastidious; not fussy; not appropriately concerned with detail or cleanliness
- unforeseeing — not foreseeing
- unfortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- unfossilized — not fossilized
- unsaponified — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.
- unscottified — not Scottish; taken out of a Scottish context
- unsolidified — to unite firmly or consolidate.
- unwished-for — undesired; unwelcome: an unwished-for occurrence.
- unworshipful — not worshipful; not showing reverence or admiration
- washfountain — a large, usually circular wash basin, as in an industrial plant, in which a spray of water activated by foot pedal allows several workers to wash simultaneously.
- young fustic — fustet (def 2).