12-letter words containing s, t, i, f, l
- insightfully — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
- insufflation — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- 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.
- justifyingly — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- 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.
- latifundista — the owner of a latifundio in Latin America or Spain.
- 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
- lifting sail — a sail that when filled tends to raise the hull of a ship or boat (opposed to driving sail).
- line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
- 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.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- mirthfulness — joyous; cheerful; jolly; merry: a mirthful laugh.
- mosquito fly — dragonfly (def 1).
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multiflorous — bearing many flowers, as a peduncle.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- mystifyingly — to perplex (a person) by playing upon the person's credulity; bewilder purposely.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- plastic flow — deformation of a material that remains rigid under stresses of less than a certain intensity but that behaves under severer stresses approximately as a Newtonian fluid.
- plastic foam — expanded plastic.
- play it safe — a dramatic composition or piece; drama.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- salification — to form into a salt, as by chemical combination.
- 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.
- 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.
- self-limited — (of a disease) running a definite and limited course.
- self-pitying — Someone who is self-pitying is full of self-pity.