12-letter words containing f, o, r, s
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- in course of — in the process of
- in search of — looking for, seeking
- in so far as — to the extent that
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- infographics — Plural form of infographic.
- infomercials — Plural form of infomercial.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- irish coffee — a mixture of hot coffee and Irish whiskey, sweetened and topped with whipped cream.
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- jaculiferous — having dartlike spines.
- jeffersonian — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- king-of-arms — a title of certain of the principal heralds of England and certain other kingdoms empowered by their sovereigns to grant armorial bearings.
- korsakoffian — relating to or suffering from Korsakoff's psychosis
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- law of areas — any one of three laws governing planetary motion: each planet revolves in an ellipse, with the sun at one focus; the line connecting a planet to the sun sweeps out equal areas in equal periods of time (law of areas) or the square of the period of revolution of each planet is proportional to the cube of the semimajor axis of the planet's orbit (harmonic law)
- leapfroggers — Plural form of leapfrogger.
- leif ericson — Leif [leef;; Icelandic leyv] /lif;; Icelandic leɪv/ (Show IPA), flourished a.d. c1000, Norse mariner: according to Icelandic saga, discoverer of Vinland (son of Eric the Red).
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- loriciferans — Plural form of loriciferan.
- lower fungus — any of various fungi that do not produce well-organized fruiting bodies and primarily reproduce asexually, as the chytrids.
- lug foresail — a gaff foresail having no boom or sometimes a partial boom.
- luminiferous — producing light: the luminiferous properties of a gas.
- macrofossils — Plural form of macrofossil.
- man of straw — straw man.
- mansard-roof — Also called mansard roof. a hip roof, each face of which has a steeper lower part and a shallower upper part. Compare French roof.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- microfibrils — Plural form of microfibril.
- microfibrous — Composed of microscopic fibres.
- microforceps — (surgery) A very small forceps.
- microfossils — a fossil so small that it can be studied and identified only with a microscope.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- misconfigure — Configure (a system or part of it) incorrectly.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- misinforming — Present participle of misinform.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- moschiferous — giving off or producing musk
- mournfulness — The property of being mournful.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multiflorous — bearing many flowers, as a peduncle.
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.