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Answer for the clue "Faulty position ", 12 letters:
misplacement

Word definitions for misplacement in dictionaries

The Collaborative International Dictionary Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Misplacement \Mis*place"ment\, n. The act of misplacing, or the state of being misplaced.

WordNet Word definitions in WordNet
n. faulty position [syn: malposition ]

Wiktionary Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. Bad placement.

Usage examples of misplacement.

The Chinese students who aspire to honors spend years in verbally memorizing the classics-- Confucius and Mencius--and receive degrees and public advancement upon ability to transcribe from memory without the error of a point, or misplacement of a single tea-chest character, the whole of some books of morals.

Hugh and Prior Robert had arrived at the priory late in the evening, paid their respects to the prior, attended Vespers to do reverence to the saints of the foundation, Saints Oswald and Wulstan, and taken Herluin and his attendants into their confidence about the loss, or at the very least the misplacement, of Saint Winifreds reliquary.