11-letter words containing e, t, o, u, f
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- in quest of — searching for
- infeudation — the act of putting a vassal in possession of a fief
- infield out — a put-out recorded by a member of the infield.
- infortunate — of or relating to infortune.
- infructuose — Not yielding fruit.
- interfluous — interfluent
- interfusion — to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
- keep out of — to remain or cause to remain unexposed to
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lethiferous — lethal.
- misfortuned — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate.
- misfortunes — adverse fortune; bad luck.
- mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
- ninety-four — a cardinal number, 90 plus 4.
- nonaffluent — not affluent or rich
- obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
- of the hour — most prominent at this time
- on the cuff — a fold or band serving as a trimming or finish for the bottom of a sleeve.
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- out of step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- out of time — having passed a deadline
- out of true — not properly set, adjusted, aligned, etc.; inexact
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- outperforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outperform.
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- 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.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- pussyfooter — a person who behaves stealthily or evasively
- 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.
- refuctoring — (humour, programming) Taking a well-designed piece of code and, through a series of small, reversible changes, making it completely unmaintainable by anyone except yourself. The term is a humourous play on the term refactoring and was coined by Jason Gorman in a pub in 2002. Refuctoring techniques include: Using Pig Latin as a naming convention. Stating The Bleeding Obvious - writing comments that paraphrase the code (e.g., "declare an integer called I with an initial value of zero"). Module Gravity Well - adding all new code to the biggest module. Unique Modeling Language - inventing your own visual notation. Treasure Hunt - Writing code consisting mostly of references to other code and documents that reference other documents. Rainy Day Module - writing spare code just in case somebody needs it later.
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
- rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.