11-letter words containing f, o, c
- rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
- rose chafer — a tan scarabaeid beetle, Macrodactylus subspinosis, that feeds on the flowers and foliage of roses, grapes, peach trees, etc.
- round-faced — having a face that is round.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- sales force — team of salespeople
- scaffoldage — a scaffold or scaffolding
- scaffolding — a temporary structure for holding workers and materials during the erection, repair, or decoration of a building.
- scalariform — ladderlike.
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- schaffhouse — a town in N Switzerland, capital of Schaffhausen canton, on the Rhine. Pop: 33 628 (2000)
- school fees — the money paid for a person to go to school
- school fund — the money provided by a government or raised by parents and teachers to finance the running of a school
- school life — the period of your life that you spend at school
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- scorpionfly — any of several harmless insects of the order Mecoptera, the male of certain species having a reproductive structure that resembles the sting of a scorpion.
- scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
- scroll foot — French foot (def 1).
- scuffle hoe — a hoe with a flat blade, pushed back and forth through the surface soil, as to weed
- second self — one who associates so closely with a given person as to assume that person's mode of behavior, personality, beliefs, etc.
- second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
- second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
- second-half — happening in the second half of a game
- section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
- shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
- silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
- slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
- smock frock — a loose overgarment of linen or cotton, as that worn by European farm laborers. Compare blouse (def 3).
- so much for — So much for is used to indicate that you have finished talking about a subject.
- social fund — (in Britain) a social security fund from which loans or payments may be made to people in cases of extreme need
- social life — leisure time spent with other people
- soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
- soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- speech form — linguistic form.
- spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.