12-letter words containing n, s, f
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a 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.
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- subreference — a secondary reference
- sufficiently — adequate for the purpose; enough: sufficient proof; sufficient protection.
- 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.
- sulfadiazine — a sulfanilamide derivative, C 1 0 H 1 0 N 4 O 2 S, used chiefly in the treatment of urinary tract infections, meningitis, and malaria.
- sulfarsenide — any compound containing an arsenide and a sulfide.
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- swiss-french — of or relating to a person from French-speaking Switzerland
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- the sniffles — a cold in the head
- the snuffles — a condition characterized by snuffling
- thousandfold — having a thousand elements or parts.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- toffee-nosed — stuck-up; conceited; pretentious: a toffee-nosed butler; a toffee-nosed shop.
- 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.
- tooth fungus — any of various mushrooms of the family Hydnaceae (and, in some classifications, allied families), having on the underside of the cap numerous conical spines rather than gills or pores.
- traffic sign — notice to vehicles
- trans female — a person who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transfer fee — a sum of money paid by one football club to another for a transferred player
- transfer rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- transfermium — having an atomic number greater than 100, the atomic number of fermium.
- transferring — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- 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.
- transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
- trustafarian — a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress, drug taking, etc
- trustfulness — full of trust; free of distrust, suspicion, or the like; confiding: a trustful friend.
- truthfulness — telling the truth, especially habitually: a truthful person.
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- ufo sighting — the sighting of a UFO
- un-furbished — to restore to freshness of appearance or good condition (often followed by up): to furbish a run-down neighborhood; to furbish up one's command of a foreign language.
- un-stressful — full of stress or tension: the stressful days before a war.