12-letter words containing s, e, t, i, f
- frozen stiff — feeling very cold
- fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
- fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- fruitfulness — producing good results; beneficial; profitable: fruitful investigations.
- frying steak — a steak that is cooked by frying
- fugitiveness — The quality of being fugitive; evanescence; volatility.
- fujita scale — a scale for expressing the intensity of a tornado, ranging from F0 (light damage) to F5 (incredible damage)
- fulfillments — Plural form of fulfillment.
- functionless — Lacking a function.
- furnishments — Plural form of furnishment.
- gefilte fish — a forcemeat of boned fish, especially such freshwater fish as carp, pike, or whitefish, blended with eggs, matzo meal, and seasoning, shaped into balls or sticks and simmered in a vegetable broth, and often served chilled.
- gemeinschaft — an association of individuals having sentiments, tastes, and attitudes in common; fellowship.
- gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
- half section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- half-section — a part that is cut off or separated.
- hi-fi system — a complete system of high-quality sound-reproducing equipment
- hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
- hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- imprest fund — a fund of petty cash.
- in the flesh — the soft substance of a human or other animal body, consisting of muscle and fat.
- infanticides — Plural form of infanticide.
- infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicities — Plural form of infelicity.
- infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
- infestations — Plural form of infestation.
- infidelities — marital disloyalty; adultery.
- infinite set — (mathematics) A set with an infinite number of elements. There are several possible definitions, e.g. (i) ("Dedekind infinite") A set X is infinite if there exists a bijection (one-to-one mapping) between X and some proper subset of X. (ii) A set X is infinite if there exists an injection from N (the set of natural numbers) to X. In the presence of the Axiom of Choice all such definitions are equivalent.
- infiniteness — immeasurably great: an infinite capacity for forgiveness.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- influentials — Plural form of influential.
- insufficient — not sufficient; lacking in what is necessary or required: an insufficient answer.
- intensifiers — Plural form of intensifier.
- intensifying — Present participle of intensify.
- interdiffuse — (of two or more fluids) to diffuse mutually
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- isapi filter — (web) A replaceable DLL which the server calls whenever there is an HTTP request. When the filter is first loaded, it communicates to the server what sort of notifications will be accepted. After that, whenever a selected event occurs, the filter is called to process the event. Example applications of ISAPI filters include custom authentication schemes, compression, encryption, logging, traffic analysis or other request analyses.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- kentish fire — prolonged clapping by an audience, especially in unison, indicating impatience or disapproval.
- knife switch — a form of air switch in which a moving element, usually a hinged blade, is placed between two contact clips.
- lantern fish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- left-justify — If printed text is left-justified, each line begins at the same distance from the left-hand edge of the page or column.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- 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
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.