11-letter words containing a, f, o, u
- overfraught — too fraught
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- plain flour — ground wheat with no raising agent
- planuliform — resembling a planula
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- pousse-cafe — an after-dinner drink of liqueurs of various colors and specific gravities, carefully poured into a glass so as to remain floating in separate layers.
- purificator — the linen cloth used by the celebrant for wiping the chalice after each communicant has drunk from it.
- put forward — to move or place (anything) so as to get it into or out of a specific location or position: to put a book on the shelf.
- pyrosulfate — a salt of pyrosulfuric acid.
- quatrefoils — Plural form of quatrefoil.
- read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
- reformulate — to formulate again.
- reproachful — full of or expressing reproach or censure: a reproachful look.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- royal flush — the five highest cards of a suit.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
- sioux falls — a city in SE South Dakota.
- snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- suffixation — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- take out of — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- talk out of — dissuade
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
- tibiofibula — the bone of a frog's lower leg
- tout a fait — entirely; completely.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- tuxedo sofa — an overstuffed sofa with upholstered arms, either straight or curving slightly outward, at the same height as the back.
- uncared for — If you describe people or animals as uncared for, you mean that they have not been looked after properly and as a result are hungry, dirty, or ill.
- uncared-for — untended; neglected; unkempt: The garden had an uncared-for look.
- unfashioned — not fashioned or made; not formed
- unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.