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11-letter words containing f, o, l

  • rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
  • run foul of — to collide with or become entangled in
  • sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
  • saddle roof — curved covering for a building
  • safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
  • 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.
  • sales force — team of salespeople
  • salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
  • sam hold of — to collect; gather up
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • 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).
  • 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.
  • 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-half — happening in the second half of a game
  • self-avowed — acknowledged; declared: an avowed enemy.
  • self-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
  • self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
  • self-moving — capable of moving without an external agency.
  • self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • self-poised — acting with poise.
  • 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-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
  • self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
  • shellflower — an eastern Asian plant, Alpinia zerumbet, of the ginger family, having pendulous clusters of fragrant white flowers with variegated markings.
  • shoofly pie — an open pie filled with a sweet crumb and molasses mixture and baked.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • shuffle off — to walk without lifting the feet or with clumsy steps and a shambling gait.
  • silicon fen — an area of Cambridgeshire, esp around the city of Cambridge, in which industries associated with information technology are concentrated
  • silver foil — silver or silver-colored metal in foil form.
  • silver orfe — one of the two varieties of orfe, an aquarium fish
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • sioux falls — a city in SE South Dakota.
  • slacken off — If something slackens off, it becomes slower, less active, or less intense.
  • slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
  • slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
  • smoke shelf — a ledge at the bottom of a smoke chamber, so made as to deflect or break downdrafts from the chimney.
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