12-letter words containing a, f, r, o
- sofa surfing — (of a homeless person) the practice of staying temporarily with various friends and relatives while attempting to find permanent accommodation
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.
- soprano clef — a sign locating middle C on the bottom line of the staff.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- 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.
- stalactiform — resembling or shaped like a stalactite.
- stand in for — to substitute for
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- state of war — a condition marked by armed conflict between or among states, existing whether or not war has been declared formally by any of the belligerents.
- straight off — without a bend, angle, or curve; not curved; direct: a straight path.
- stratiformis — occurring in a very extensive horizontal layer.
- 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
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- sugaring off — a sweet, crystalline substance, C 1 2 H 2 2 O 1 1 , obtained chiefly from the juice of the sugarcane and the sugar beet, and present in sorghum, maple sap, etc.: used extensively as an ingredient and flavoring of certain foods and as a fermenting agent in the manufacture of certain alcoholic beverages; sucrose. Compare beet sugar, cane sugar.
- sulfonylurea — any of a group of oral drugs, as tolbutamide, that stimulate the pancreas to secrete more insulin, used to treat diabetes
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- surface road — a road or street level with its surroundings: surface roads and elevated highways.
- surfboarding — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- synchroflash — of or relating to photography employing a device that synchronizes the photoflash with the shutter.
- take care of — a state of mind in which one is troubled; worry, anxiety, or concern: He was never free from care.
- tamper-proof — resistant to interference, alteration
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- ternary form — a musical form in three sections, with the third usually an exact repetition of the first.
- terraforming — to alter the environment of (a celestial body) in order to make capable of supporting terrestrial life forms.
- testificator — a person who witnesses
- thoroughfare — a road, street, or the like, that leads at each end into another street.
- tie-off rail — trim rail.
- titaniferous — containing or yielding titanium.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- to play fair — If you say that someone plays fair, you mean that they behave or act in a reasonable and honest way.
- tongue graft — whip graft.
- top grafting — grafting in the top, as of a tree, in order to replace existing branches with those of a more desired variety or form.
- torrefaction — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- tractor feed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- traffic cone — conical road markers
- transfection — the insertion into a cell of a bacterial plasmid that contains a foreign virus or genetic material.
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transforming — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformism — the doctrine of gradual transformation of one species into another by descent with modification through many generations.
- transformist — an adherent of transformism.
- transmogrify — to change in appearance or form, especially strangely or grotesquely; transform.