12-letter words containing s, t, u, f
- safe-conduct — a document authorizing safe passage through a region, especially in time of war.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- salutiferous — salutary.
- self-studies — the study of something by oneself, as through books, records, etc., without direct supervision or attendance in a class: She learned to read German by self-study.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- set function — a function having a collection of sets as domain.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- shuttlecraft — space shuttle.
- simple fruit — a fruit formed from one pistil.
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- slumpflation — a situation in which economic depression is combined with increasing inflation
- sneak out of — leave secretly
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solifluction — creep (def 22a).
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sound effect — any sound, other than music or speech, artificially reproduced to create an effect in a dramatic presentation, as the sound of a storm or a creaking door.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- south-facing — facing towards the south
- spitefulness — full of spite or malice; showing spite; malicious; malevolent; venomous: a spiteful child.
- sprightfully — in a sprightful manner
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- stealthfully — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stefan dušan — 1308–55, king of Serbia (1331–55), who conquered Albania (1343) and large parts of the Byzantine empire, into which he introduced legal and administrative reforms
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stick figure — a diagrammatic drawing representing a human or animal, usually made with one line each for the torso and appendages, and often a circle for the head.
- stick up for — to pierce or puncture with something pointed, as a pin, dagger, or spear; stab: to stick one's finger with a needle.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- strike fault — a fault that trends parallel to the strike of the strata that it offsets.
- student file — a file containing information about each student in a school, college, etc, such as demographic information and information about grades, etc
- stuffing box — a device for preventing leakage of gases or liquids along a moving rod or shaft at the point at which it leaves a cylinder, tank, ship hull, etc.
- stuffing nut — a large nut that is tightened to compress the packing in a stuffing box
- stunt flying — the activity or practice of performing stunts in an aeroplane, such as special turns, etc, in the air
- stupefacient — stupefying; producing stupor.
- stupefaction — the state of being stupefied; stupor.
- stupefactive — serving to stupefy.
- stupefyingly — to put into a state of little or no sensibility; benumb the faculties of; put into a stupor.
- sub-function — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- 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
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.