12-letter words containing s, o, f, a, r
- housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in so far as — to the extent that
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- 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.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- 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)
- leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- man of straw — straw man.
- mansard-roof — Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- 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
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- 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
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- 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.
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- push forward — keep advancing
- rainbow fish — guppy.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.