12-letter words containing r, t, f
- to your feet — If you get or rise to your feet, you stand up.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- top grafting — grafting in the top, as of a tree, in order to replace existing branches with those of a more desired variety or form.
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- tour of duty — tour (def 5).
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- tracker fund — finance: type of savings account
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- traffic duty — an assignment to help the flow of traffic and enforce traffic regulations
- 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.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- tree of life — a tree in the Garden of Eden that yielded food giving everlasting life. Gen 2:9; 3:22.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
- trench fever — a recurrent fever, often suffered by soldiers in trenches in World War I, caused by a rickettsia transmitted by the body louse.
- trench knife — a short knife for stabbing, sometimes equipped with brass knuckles as a guard, used in modern warfare in hand-to-hand combat.
- trifoliolate — having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.
- trifurcation — to divide into three forks or branches.
- trinacriform — three-pronged
- triple fugue — a fugue with a subject and two countersubjects developed simultaneously.
- trouble-free — not problematic
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- true to form — typical
- true to life — realistic
- trumpet-leaf — trumpets.
- 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.
- trypaflavine — acriflavine hydrochloride.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- turf dancing — a fluid style of street-dancing originating in the Bay Area of San Francisco, California
- turn of mind — If someone is of a particular turn of mind, they have that kind of mind or character.