12-letter words containing r, t, f
- 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.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- 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.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- shirt-lifter — a homosexual
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- significator — a planet deemed significant in astrology
- silk factory — plant where silk fabric is produced
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- 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.
- small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.
- 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.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- sportfishing — fishing with a rod and reel for sport, especially for saltwater sport fish from a motorboat.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- stage fright — nervousness felt by a performer or speaker when appearing before an audience.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stark effect — Physics. (often lowercase) the splitting into two or more components of the spectral lines of atoms in an electric field.
- starter flat — a compact flat marketed by price and size specifications to suit the requirements of first-time home buyers
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- steam fitter — a person who installs and repairs steampipes and their accessories.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- streamer fly — an artificial fly having a wing or wings extending beyond the crook of the fishhook.
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.