11-letter words containing f, a, d, o
- load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- microfarads — Plural form of microfarad.
- off-roading — driving on unmade terrain
- offhandedly — cavalierly, curtly, or brusquely: to reply offhand.
- officialdom — the class or entire body of officials; officials as a whole.
- oil of cade — a juniper, Juniperus oxycedrus, of the Mediterranean area, whose wood on destructive distillation yields an oily liquid (oil of cade) used in treating skin diseases.
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- overforward — too familiar
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- oxford bags — trousers with very wide baggy legs, originally popular in the 1920s
- oxford gray — medium to dark gray.
- paraffinoid — resembling a paraffin.
- passo fundo — a city in S Brazil.
- poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- powder flag — red flag (def 4).
- proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
- 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.
- rabbit food — raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.
- radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
- 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.
- reformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
- rhagadiform — of or relating to rhagades
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- 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.
- sam hold of — to collect; gather up
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
- self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- son of adam — a man: He had all the weaknesses to which a son of Adam is heir.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.