12-letter words containing f, e, o, s
- loose-footed — (of a fore-and-aft sail) not having the foot bent to a boom.
- loosefitting — fitting loosely
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lose oneself — to lose one's way; go astray; become bewildered
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- manifoldness — (mathematics) multiplicity.
- mauvaise foi — (in the philosophy of Sartre) the expression usually rendered as bad faith
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misfashioned — Simple past tense and past participle of misfashion.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- monkey flush — three cards of the same suit, usually not in sequence.
- monospecific — having or comprising a single species
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- neofeudalism — A theorized contemporary rebirth of policies of governance, economy and public life reminiscent of those present in many feudal societies.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- newfashioned — Alternative form of new-fashioned.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- non-specific — Non-specific medical conditions or symptoms have more than one possible cause.
- nonfluencies — spoken or written with ease: fluent French.
- nonoffensive — Not offensive.
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- of one's own — If you say that someone has a particular thing of their own, you mean that that thing belongs or relates to them, rather than to other people.
- of substance — wealthy
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- offendedness — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- office space — part of a building for business use
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset sheet — a rubber-coated sheet in an offset press which acts as the intermediate surface to transfer the impression to the paper
- oil of anise — the aromatic seed of anise, the oil of which (anise oil, aniseed oil, oil of anise) is used in the manufacture of anethole, in medicine as a carminative and expectorant, and in cookery and liqueurs for its licoricelike flavor.
- oldfashioned — Rare spelling of old-fashioned.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way