12-letter words containing r, s, f
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- sergeantfish — the cobia, Rachycentron canadum.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- service flat — an apartment with complete hotel services.
- service lift — a lift which carries heavy goods in a place of business, as for example, plates in a restaurant
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- several-fold — comprising several parts or members.
- sex offender — a person who has been found guilty of one or more sex crimes.
- sharp-freeze — quick-freeze.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- sheep farmer — sb who raises sheep
- sheet feeder — a device that feeds paper into a printer one sheet at a time.
- shelf talker — a cardboard, paper, or plastic advertisement of a product designed to be attached to a shelf on which the product is exhibited for sale.
- shellfishery — the industry and commerce of catching, processing, and selling shellfish; raising shellfish for commercial purposes.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shingle roof — a roof covered with thin rectangular tiles, esp made of wood, that are laid with others in overlapping rows
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- sir jeffreys — George (1st Baron Jeffreys of Wem) 1648–89, English jurist.
- sir sandford — Mount, a mountain in SE British Columbia, Canada, in the Selkirk Mountains. 11,590 feet (3533 meters).
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- sloop of war — (formerly) a sailing or steam naval vessel having cannons on only one deck.
- small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.
- snake feeder — a dragonfly.
- sniff around — dog: try to pick up scent
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- 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 release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- soft-centred — (of a chocolate or boiled sweet) having a centre consisting of cream, jelly, etc
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- soil profile — a vertical succession of horizons, commonly lettered A, B, C (beginning at the surface), that have been subjected to soil-forming processes, chiefly leaching and oxidation.
- solid figure — a figure that has three dimensions
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- soporiferous — bringing sleep; soporific.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.