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12-letter words containing r, e, f, s

  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • hypersurface — a mathematical object that generalizes the concept of surface from three-dimensional Euclidean space to hyperspace.
  • imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
  • imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
  • in course of — in the process of
  • in search of — looking for, seeking
  • inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
  • 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.
  • intensifiers — Plural form of intensifier.
  • interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
  • irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
  • 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.
  • jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • jesus freaks — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
  • kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
  • 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.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • leaf mustard — a pungent powder or paste prepared from the seed of the mustard plant, used as a food seasoning or condiment, and medicinally in plasters, poultices, etc.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • 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
  • loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
  • loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
  • lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
  • lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
  • luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
  • make friends — get to know people
  • malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
  • manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
  • mass funeral — a funeral held for several dead people at the same time
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • mercifulness — full of mercy; characterized by, expressing, or showing mercy; compassionate: a merciful God.
  • microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
  • mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
  • mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
  • misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
  • misfeaturing — distorting the features
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • misinference — Incorrect inference.
  • misreference — to reference (an academic work, a publication, etc) inaccurately or incorrectly
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