11-letter words containing a, f, o, r, e, s
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- greaseproof — Resistant to grease.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- infraorders — Misspelling of infra-orders.
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- laser proof — a print proof of an element of a page printed out on a laser printer, so as to give an almost accurate preview of the final printout
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.
- mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
- manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
- measure off — a unit or standard of measurement: weights and measures.
- nefariously — extremely wicked or villainous; iniquitous: a nefarious plot.
- new flavors — An object-oriented Lisp from Symbolics, the successor to Flavors, it led to CLOS.
- oceanfronts — Plural form of oceanfront.
- offshoreman — a person who works offshore, especially on an offshore oil rig.
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- page proofs — the final version of a book before it goes to the printer, containing all elements including page numbers and layout
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- passeriform — of or relating to the order Passeriformes; passerine.
- proof stage — the stage of publishing where trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) are read for the correction of errors
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- rain forest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- raster font — bitmap font
- re-forecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- retransform — to transform back, again or differently
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- rose family — the plant family Rosaceae, characterized by trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having compound or simple leaves with stipules, flowers typically with five sepals and five petals, and fruit in a variety of forms, many of which are fleshy and edible, and including the almond, apple, apricot, blackberry, cherry, cinquefoil, hawthorn, peach, pear, plum, raspberry, rose, spirea, and strawberry.
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- sales force — team of salespeople