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12-letter words containing n, s, f

  • sinking fund — a fund to extinguish an indebtedness, usually a bond issue.
  • sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
  • slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
  • slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
  • snake feeder — a dragonfly.
  • sneak out of — leave secretly
  • sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
  • sniffishness — the quality or characteristic of being sniffy
  • snotty-faced — having visible nasal mucus on the face
  • sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
  • soft chancre — chancroid.
  • 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.
  • soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
  • solifluction — creep (def 22a).
  • somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
  • son of a gun — a rogue; rascal; scoundrel: That son of a gun still owes me $20.
  • soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
  • sorbefacient — inducing absorption
  • sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
  • south-facing — facing towards the south
  • spanish foot — a carved pyramidal foot having fluted, concave sides usually ending in a scroll at the bottom.
  • spearfishing — any of several fishes of the genus Tetrapturus, resembling the sailfish but having the first dorsal fin much less developed: inhabiting all seas, but rare.
  • speechifying — Speechifying is the making of speeches, especially because you want to appear important.
  • spencer gulf — an inlet of the Indian Ocean in S Australia, between the Eyre and Yorke Peninsulas. Length: about 320 km (200 miles). Greatest width: about 145 km (90 miles)
  • spiflication — rough treatment
  • spin fishing — spinning (def 3).
  • spina bifida — a congenital neural tube defect in which part of the meninges or spinal cord protrudes through the spinal column, often resulting in neurological impairment.
  • spinal fluid — cerebrospinal fluid
  • spindle file — a device for holding bills, memos, etc., having a projecting metal spike or hooked object on which to stick papers.
  • spiny-finned — having fins with sharp bony rays, as an acanthopterygian.
  • spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
  • spongillafly — spongefly.
  • sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
  • spring fever — a listless, lazy, or restless feeling commonly associated with the beginning of spring.
  • stand in for — to substitute for
  • stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
  • 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
  • stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
  • stefan dušan — 1308–55, king of Serbia (1331–55), who conquered Albania (1343) and large parts of the Byzantine empire, into which he introduced legal and administrative reforms
  • stefan's law — the principle that the energy radiated per second by unit area of a black body at thermodynamic temperature T is directly proportional to T4. The constant of proportionality is the Stefan constant, equal to 5.670400 × 10–8 Wm–2 K–4
  • stiff-necked — having a stiff neck; having torticollis.
  • stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
  • strong force — Also called nuclear force. the short-range attractive force between baryons that holds together the nucleus of the atom.
  • student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
  • 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.
  • stuffing nut — a large nut that is tightened to compress the packing in a stuffing box
  • stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
  • stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
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