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12-letter words containing f, e, o, s

  • heterografts — Plural form of heterograft.
  • hindforemost — with the back part in the front place
  • hog's fennel — any of several Eurasian umbelliferous marsh plants of the genus Peucedanum, esp P. officinale, having clusters of small whitish flowers
  • hohenstaufen — a member of the royal family that ruled in Germany from 1138 to 1208 and from 1215 to 1254, and in Sicily from 1194 to 1266.
  • honey fungus — an edible basidiomycetous fungus, Armillaria mellea, having a yellow-spotted cap and wrinkled stems, parasitic on the roots of woody plants, which it may kill by root rot. It spreads by thin black underground strands
  • hostile fire — an unintentional fire, from which any resulting loss can be claimed as an insurance liability (opposed to friendly fire).
  • house of god — Also called house of worship, house of prayer. a building devoted to religious worship; a church, synagogue, temple, chapel, etc.
  • housefathers — Plural form of housefather.
  • hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
  • hydrosulfide — a compound containing the univalent group –HS.
  • hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
  • imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
  • in course of — in the process of
  • in excess of — more than
  • in search of — looking for, seeking
  • inclusive of — including; taking into account
  • index fossil — a widely distributed fossil, of narrow range in time, regarded as characteristic of a given geological formation, used especially in determining the age of related formations.
  • infamousness — The state or quality of being infamous; infamy.
  • infectiously — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
  • infelicitous — inapt, inappropriate, or awkward; malapropos: an infelicitous remark.
  • infestations — Plural form of infestation.
  • inflammasome — (biochemistry) A multi-protein complex that is responsible for inflammatory rheumatic diseases via activation of caspases.
  • inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
  • infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
  • irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
  • iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
  • isle of dogs — a district in the East End of London, bounded on three sides by the River Thames, and a focus of major office development (Canary Wharf) in recent years
  • jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
  • jaws of life — powerful shears used for cutting a vehicle open after a collision
  • jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
  • juventa fons — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars, appearing as a dark region when viewed through a telescope.
  • kick oneself — regret sth
  • kill oneself — to overexert oneself
  • kiss of life — medicine
  • laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
  • law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
  • law of moses — the Pentateuch, containing the Mosaic dispensations, or system of rules and ordinances, and forming the first of the three Jewish divisions of the Old Testament.
  • law of sines — a law stating that the ratio of a side of a plane triangle to the sine of the opposite angle is the same for all three sides.
  • leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
  • least of all — You can use least of all after a negative statement to emphasize that it applies especially to the person or thing mentioned.
  • leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
  • lend oneself — to give support, cooperation, etc
  • life goes on — You can say 'Life goes on' after mentioning something very sad to indicate that, although people are very upset or affected by it, they have to carry on living normally.
  • life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
  • life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
  • life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
  • line of site — a straight line from the muzzle of an artillery gun to its target.
  • little foxes — a play (1939) by Lillian Hellman.
  • loathfulness — (rare) The condition of being loathful; reluctance.
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