12-letter words containing f, e, t, o
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- parrot fever — psittacosis.
- 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.
- perfectation — the action or process of becoming or causing to become perfect or complete
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- petrifaction — the act or process of petrifying; the state of being petrified.
- pettifogging — You can describe an action or situation as pettifogging when you think that unnecessary attention is being paid to unimportant, boring details.
- 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
- photo-offset — a method of printing, based on photolithography, in which the inked image is transferred from the metal plate to a rubber surface and then to the paper.
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- 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.
- pocket knife — A pocket knife is a small knife with several blades which fold into the handle so that you can carry it around with you safely.
- point defect — an imperfection in a crystal's lattice structure, either a missing atom or ion creating a vacancy in the lattice or an extra atom or ion between two normal lattice points creating an interstitial.
- pontificates — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- 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
- postfeminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- power factor — (in an electrical circuit) the ratio of the power dissipated to the product of the input volts times amps
- 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
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- presser foot — a forked, metal device on a sewing machine used for holding the fabric in place while stitching.
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- proficiently — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profiteering — a person who seeks or exacts exorbitant profits, especially through the sale of scarce or rationed goods.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages
- proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
- proof stress — the load per unit area that a structure can withstand without being permanently deformed by more than a specified amount.
- proof theory — (logic) The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.