11-letter words containing f, e, t, o, l
- safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
- slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
- soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soft solder — a solder fusible at temperatures below 700°F (370°C), generally an alloy of lead and tin.
- soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- telling-off — If you give someone a telling-off, you tell them that you are very angry with them about something they have done.
- the like of — any person or thing like
- theftuously — in a theftuous or thievish manner
- thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- to the full — completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup.
- to the left — on or towards the left-hand side
- to the life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
- twenty-fold — having twenty sections, aspects, divisions, kinds, etc.
- twofoldness — the quality or state of being twofold
- unforgetful — apt to forget; that forgets: a forgetful person.
- vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
- vowel shift — a systematic phonetic change in a language's vowels
- waterfowler — a person who hunts waterfowl for sport or food.
- well-fought — simple past tense and past participle of fight.
- wheat flour — powdered cereal grain
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- white flour — flour that consists substantially of the starchy endosperm of wheat, most of the bran and the germ having been removed by the milling process
- zeolitiform — in the shape of a zeolite