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12-letter words containing s, t, o, r, e, f

  • forty-niners — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
  • forty-second — next after the forty-first; being the ordinal number for 42.
  • foster child — a child raised by someone who is not its natural or adoptive parent.
  • four-striper — a captain in the U.S. Navy.
  • fox software — (company)   Developers of FoxBASE+ and FoxPRO. Fox Software merged with Microsoft around 1992. Addresss: Perrysburg, OH, USA.
  • french toast — bread dipped in a batter of egg and milk and sautéed until brown, usually served with syrup or sprinkled with sugar and cinnamon.
  • fresh out of — having just run out of supplies of
  • frictionless — surface resistance to relative motion, as of a body sliding or rolling.
  • frog sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • frog-sticker — Slang. a knife, especially one carried as a weapon.
  • frontiersman — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • frontiersmen — a person, especially a man, who lives on the frontier, especially in sparsely settled regions.
  • frontispiece — an illustrated leaf preceding the title page of a book.
  • frontrunners — Plural form of frontrunner.
  • frozen stiff — feeling very cold
  • fructiferous — fruit-bearing; producing fruit.
  • fructosamine — (organic compound) A chemical compound that can be considered the result of a reaction between fructose and ammonia or an amine (with a molecule of water being released).
  • future shock — physical and psychological disturbance caused by a person's inability to cope with very rapid social and technological change.
  • gersdorffite — a mineral, sulfide-arsenide of nickel, NiAsS, occurring in metallic, light-gray cubes.
  • head for sth — If you a have a head for something, you can deal with it easily. For example, if you have a head for figures, you can do arithmetic easily, and if you have a head for heights, you can climb to a great height without feeling afraid.
  • headforemost — headfirst (def 1).
  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
  • hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
  • 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.
  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
  • inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • 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.
  • loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
  • memory farts — (jargon, humour)   The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
  • 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.
  • misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
  • mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
  • noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
  • 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
  • offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
  • 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.
  • over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
  • 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.
  • postfracture — taking place after a fracture
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