12-letter words containing i, s, r, a, f, l
- foolhardiest — Superlative form of foolhardy.
- fore-topsail — a topsail set on a foremast on a ship.
- forensically — pertaining to, connected with, or used in courts of law or public discussion and debate.
- forestalling — Present participle of forestall.
- forestaysail — a triangular sail set on a forestay; the innermost headsail of a vessel.
- foretopsails — Plural form of foretopsail.
- formularizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formularize.
- formulations — Plural form of formulation.
- fort pulaski — Count Casimir [kaz-uh-meer] /ˈkæz əˌmɪər/ (Show IPA), 1748–79, Polish patriot; general in the American Revolutionary army.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- fraternalism — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fritillaries — Plural form of fritillary.
- galeniferous — Of a mineral or deposit that contains galena.
- glandiferous — bearing nuts or acorns
- gonfaloniers — Plural form of gonfalonier.
- grass family — the large plant family Gramineae (or Poaceae), characterized by mostly herbaceous but sometimes woody plants with hollow and jointed stems, narrow sheathing leaves, petalless flowers borne in spikelets, and fruit in the form of seedlike grain, and including bamboo, sugar cane, numerous grasses, and cereal grains such as barley, corn, oats, rice, rye, and wheat.
- half serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- half-serious — of, showing, or characterized by deep thought.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- infraclasses — Plural form of infraclass.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- lifestreamer — a person who provides an online record of his or her life, either by means of live video footage or via an online collection of social network updates, blogs, and photos
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- persian gulf — strait in the Indian Ocean
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- reclassified — to classify anew.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- 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.
- scalar field — a region with a number assigned at each point.
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- self-drawing — the act of a person or thing that draws.
- self-raising — a rule of transformational grammar that shifts the subject or object of an embedded clause into the subject or object position of the main clause, as in the derivation of The suspect appears to be innocent from It appears that the suspect is innocent.
- self-reading — the action or practice of a person who reads.