12-letter words containing s, e, t, i, f
- suffruticose — woody at the base and herbaceous above.
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- sulfite pulp — wood pulp made by the sulfite process.
- swift-footed — swift in running.
- tempus fugit — time flies
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the flickers — the cinema
- the frizzies — the condition of having frizzy hair
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- the sniffles — a cold in the head
- this side of — If you say that something will not happen this side of a date or event, you mean that it will not happen before that date or event.
- tight-fisted — parsimonious; stingy; tight.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- 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.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- 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.
- tuberiferous — bearing or producing tubers
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- twenty-first — next after the twentieth; being the ordinal number for 21.
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- unfittedness — the state of being unfitted
- unsanctified — not sanctified
- unscientific — not scientific; not employed in science: an unscientific measuring device.
- unscottified — not Scottish; taken out of a Scottish context
- unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
- unsufficient — insufficient
- vociferosity — the characteristic of being vociferous
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- west mifflin — a city in W Pennsylvania, on the Monongahela River.
- wethersfield — a town in central Connecticut.
- wolf whistle — a wolf call made by whistling, often characterized by two sliding sounds, a peal up to a higher note and then one up to a lower note and down.
- wolf-whistle — If someone wolf-whistles, they make a whistling sound with a short rising note and a longer falling note. Some men wolf-whistle at a woman to show that they think she is attractive, and some women find this offensive.
- 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.