12-letter words containing f, e, t, l, o
- of all the x — You use all in expressions like of all the cheek or of all the luck to emphasize how angry or surprised you are at what someone else has done or said.
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of style — no longer fashionable
- outline font — (text) (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font (e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing. The result of transforming a character in an outline font in a particular way is often saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- pectoral fin — (in fishes) either of a pair of fins usually situated behind the head, one on each side, and corresponding to the forelimbs of higher vertebrates.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
- powerlifting — a competition or sport involving three tests of strength: the bench press, squat, and two-handed dead lift.
- prefectorial — of, relating to, or characteristic of a prefect: prefectorial powers.
- prefloration — the internal arrangement of a flower-bud's petals and sepals before it opens
- prefoliation — the arrangement of leaves within a vegetative bud
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- protest flag — a flag hoisted by a racing yacht to advise the judges of a violation of the rules by another yacht.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- rate of flow — the rate at which a liquid or other substance flows through a particular channel, pipe etc
- reflationary — economy: relating to reflation
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- reflectorize — to treat something so that it reflects light: to reflectorize license plates.
- retroflexion — a bending backward.
- roofing felt — a type of tar paper made from glass fibre or polyester fleece impregnated with bituminous material, produced in roll form, and used in roof construction
- salutiferous — salutary.
- sand-floated — noting an exterior wall finish composed of mortar rubbed with sand and floated when it has partly set.
- satin-flower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- self-conceit — an excessively favorable opinion of oneself, one's abilities, etc.; vanity.
- self-concept — the idea or mental image one has of oneself and one's strengths, weaknesses, status, etc.; self-image.
- self-content — satisfaction with oneself; self-complacency.
- self-control — control or restraint of oneself or one's actions, feelings, etc.
- self-devoted — intense devotion of oneself to an activity or to a field or profession, as art or science.
- self-storage — noting or pertaining to a warehouse or other facility that rents units to people for storing personal possessions.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-to-self — autologous.
- self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.