12-letter words containing s, a, f, e, t
- 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.
- least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
- 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
- little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malefactress — a woman who violates the law or does evil.
- manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
- manufactures — Plural form of manufacture.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- of substance — wealthy
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out-of-state — of, relating to, or from another state of the U.S.: a car with an out-of-state license plate; out-of-state vacationers.
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- past perfect — pluperfect.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- quarterstaff — a former English weapon consisting of a stout pole 6 to 8 feet (1.8 to 2.4 meters) long, tipped with iron.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- refresh rate — (hardware) (Or "vertical refresh rate", "vertical scan rate") The maximum number of frames that can be displayed on a monitor in a second, expressed in Hertz. The scan rate is controlled by the vertical sync signal generated by the video controller, ordering the monitor to position the electron gun at the upper left corner of the raster, ready to paint another frame. It is limited by the monitor's maximum horizontal scan rate and the resolution, since higher resolution means more scan lines. Increasing the refresh rate decreases flickering, reducing eye strain, but few people notice any change above 60-72 Hz.
- safe conduct — If you are given safe conduct, the authorities officially allow you to travel somewhere, guaranteeing that you will not be arrested or harmed while doing so.
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- safety blade — a blade, as on a knife, razor, etc, with a guard to reduce the risk of accidental cutting
- safety catch — a device used in mechanisms, as for elevators, to prevent falling in the event of mechanical failure.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- safety glass — a pane made by joining two plates or panes of glass with a layer of usually transparent plastic or artificial resin between them that retains the fragments if the glass is broken.
- safety match — a match designed to ignite only when rubbed on a specially prepared surface.
- safety razor — a razor with a guard to prevent the blade from cutting the skin.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- safety valve — a device that, when actuated by a gas or vapor pressure above a predetermined level, opens and allows the gas or vapor to escape until its pressure is reduced to a pressure equal to or below that of the predetermined level. Compare relief valve.
- salutiferous — salutary.