12-letter words containing s, t, f, r, a
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- surf casting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- the fair sex — women collectively
- the far east — the countries of E Asia, usually including China, Japan, North and South Korea, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Philippines: sometimes extended to include all territories east of Afghanistan
- the far west — the area of the United States west of the Great Plains
- thrust fault — a low-angle reverse fault produced in rocks subjected to thrust.
- thunderflash — a pyrotechnic device which is noisy, but not dangerous, and which is used in military exercises
- 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.
- traffic sign — notice to vehicles
- trans female — a person who was born male but whose gender identity is female.
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transfer fee — a sum of money paid by one football club to another for a transferred player
- transfer rna — a small RNA molecule, consisting of a strand of nucleotides folded into a clover-leaf shape, that picks up an unattached amino acid within the cell cytoplasm and conveys it to the ribosome for protein synthesis. Abbreviation: tRNA.
- transfer tax — a transaction fee imposed on the transfer of title to property
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transference — the act or process of transferring.
- 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.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.
- transpacific — passing or extending across the Pacific.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- trustafarian — a young person from a wealthy background whose trust fund enables him or her to eschew conventional attitudes to work, dress, drug taking, etc
- ultraleftist — ultraleft.
- understaffed — having an insufficient number of personnel: The hospital is understaffed.
- unforecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unstratified — not stratified; not arranged in strata or layers: unstratified rocks.
- urban forest — the trees and plants within a city.
- usufructuary — of, relating to, or of the nature of usufruct.
- west african — of or relating to West Africa
- worst of all — You say worst of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the most unpleasant or has the most disadvantages out of all the things you are mentioning.
- wrathfulness — The quality of being wrathful; wrath.
- yasir arafat — Yasir [yah-ser,, -sir,, yas-er] /ˈyɑ sər,, -sɪr,, ˈyæs ər/ (Show IPA), 1929–2004, Palestinian leader: head of the Palestine Liberation Organization.
- zip fastener — a zipper.