12-letter words containing s, e, t, i, f
- little falls — a township in NE New Jersey.
- little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- manifestness — The quality or state of being manifest or obvious.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- misfeaturing — distorting the features
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- mutessarifat — a province governed by a mutessarif
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- ninety-first — next after the ninetieth; being the ordinal number for 91.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- rat-infested — (of a place or vessel) that has many rats
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- risk-benefit — involving studies, testing, etc., to establish whether the benefits, as of a course of medical treatment, outweigh the risks involved: to arrive at a risk-benefit ratio.
- river forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- safe-deposit — providing safekeeping for valuables: a safe-deposit vault.
- safety chain — a chain on the fastening of a bracelet, watch, etc, to ensure that it cannot open enough to fall off accidentally
- salutiferous — salutary.
- sanctifiedly — in a sanctified manner
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scared stiff — terrified
- scratch file — A scratch file is a temporary computer file which you use as a work area or as a store while a program is operating.
- self-antigen — autoantigen.
- self-basting — (of a turkey) prepared with oil or butter to remain moist when cooked in an oven.
- self-benefit — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-evident — evident in itself without proof or demonstration; axiomatic.
- self-excited — noting a generator with magnets that are excited by the current it produces.
- self-fertile — capable of self-fertilization.
- self-heating — the state of a body perceived as having or generating a relatively high degree of warmth.