12-letter words containing o, f, e, n, s, i
- pension fund — a fund created and maintained, as by a corporation, to provide benefits under a pension plan.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- 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.
- resiniferous — yielding resin.
- saffron rice — a dish made from white rice and flavoured with the spice saffron
- sanguiferous — conveying blood, as a blood vessel.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- 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a door, gate, lid, drawer, or the like in position when closed, consisting of a bolt or system of bolts propelled and withdrawn by a mechanism operated by a key, dial, etc.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.
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- 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.
- somnifacient — causing or inducing sleep.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- unforeseeing — not foreseeing
- 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.