12-letter words containing s, a, f, e, t
- 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.
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinfeudate — to grant (lands) by subinfeudation
- sulfate pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfate process.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- take offense — If someone takes offense at something you say or do, they feel upset, often unnecessarily, because they think you are being rude to them.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- thankfulness — feeling or expressing gratitude; appreciative.
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- to sb's face — If you say something to someone's face, you say it openly in their presence.
- 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.
- 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.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- understaffed — having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unobfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- unsanctified — not sanctified
- unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
- urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
- wastefulness — given to or characterized by useless consumption or expenditure: wasteful methods; a wasteful way of life.
- watchfulness — vigilant or alert; closely observant: The sentry remained watchful throughout the night.
- well-staffed — a group of persons, as employees, charged with carrying out the work of an establishment or executing some undertaking.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- zinc sulfate — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble powder, ZnSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used for preserving skins and wood, in the electrodeposition of zinc, in the bleaching of paper, as a mordant in calico printing, and in medicine as an astringent, styptic, and emetic.
- zip fastener — a zipper.