12-letter words containing f, e, t, l, o
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- semifloating — noting or pertaining to a driving axle of an automobile or the like, the inner end of which is carried by the differential gear and the outer end of which is keyed to a wheel supported by the axle housing.
- silver frost — glaze (def 17).
- sleep it off — to rid oneself of the effects of some excess, overindulgence, etc., specif. of the aftereffects of drinking much alcoholic liquor, by sleeping
- slipper foot — an elongated pad foot.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- soft release — a means of gradually accustoming wild animals to a new environment before releasing them into it
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
- state flower — a flower chosen as an official symbol of a U.S. state.
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.
- stormfulness — the quality or state of being stormful
- suit oneself — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- superfrontal — a piece of cloth placed over an altar and frontal and hanging down a few inches over the front of the altar
- take hold of — grasp, seize sth
- telesoftware — the transmission of computer programs on a teletext system
- the likes of — of the same form, appearance, kind, character, amount, etc.: I cannot remember a like instance.
- tick trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Desmodium, of the legume family, having trifoliolate leaves and jointed pods with hooked hairs by which they adhere to objects.
- tie-off rail — trim rail.
- time of life — age (of a person)
- tin-fluoride — stannous fluoride.
- to a frazzle — absolutely; completely (esp in the phrase burnt to a frazzle)
- to fall open — If something falls open, it opens accidentally.
- to lose face — If you lose face, you do something which makes you appear weak and makes people respect or admire you less. If you do something in order to save face, you do it in order to avoid appearing weak and losing people's respect or admiration.
- to play safe — If you play safe or play it safe, you do not take any risks.
- tobacco leaf — the leaves of the tobacco plant, used for the production of cigarettes and tobacco
- toffee-apple — an apple fixed on a stick and coated with a thin layer of toffee
- touchy-feely — Informal. emphasizing or marked by emotional openness and enthusiastic physicality: a touchy-feely encounter group.
- trace fossil — a fossilized track, trail, burrow, boring, or other structure in sedimentary rock that records the presence or behavior of the organism that made it.
- tree of life — a tree in the Garden of Eden that yielded food giving everlasting life. Gen 2:9; 3:22.
- trefoil arch — an arch with cusplike intrados.
- trefoil knot — a knot having the form of a trefoil.
- trifoliolate — having three leaflets, as a compound leaf.
- trouble-free — not problematic
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- true to life — realistic
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- unconfutable — to prove to be false, invalid, or defective; disprove: to confute an argument.
- undefoliated — having the leaves left intact
- unfathomable — not able to be fathomed, or completely understood; incomprehensible: heroism in the face of unfathomable conflict.
- unformulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- unifoliolate — compound in structure yet having only one leaflet, as the orange.
- unprofitable — being without profit; not showing or turning a profit: a series of unprofitable ventures.
- vector field — a region, domain, set, etc., with a vector assigned at each point; vector function.
- volta effect — contact potential.
- waffle cloth — honeycomb (def 5a).
- waterfowling — the sport of shooting waterfowl
- west suffolk — a former administrative division of Suffolk, in E England.