12-letter words containing s, e, a, o, f
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
- law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
- leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
- 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.
- loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- 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.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- of substance — wealthy
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- office space — part of a building for business use
- 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
- oil of anise — the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- 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.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pack of lies — false account
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- piece of ass — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.