12-letter words containing f, o, r, s
- nonformalism — Absence of, or a belief system that is the opposite of, formalism.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- of few words — taciturn, who rarely speaks
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- off-islander — a temporary or seasonal resident of an island; island visitor or tourist.
- office hours — hours when a business is open
- offscourings — Often, offscourings. something scoured off; filth; refuse.
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of doors — outside, outdoors
- out of hours — Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
- out of sorts — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- out-of-doors — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overclassify — to classify to excess
- overfineness — excessive fineness
- overfinished — having an excessively polished finish
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfocussed — too focussed
- overfondness — excessive affection
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pacific rose — a large variety of eating apple from New Zealand, with sweet flesh
- pasch flower — pasqueflower
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- personifying — to attribute human nature or character to (an inanimate object or an abstraction), as in speech or writing.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- post-fordism — the idea that modern industrial production has moved away from mass production in huge factories, as pioneered by Henry Ford, towards specialized markets based on small flexible manufacturing units
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- powder flask — a small flask of gunpowder formerly carried by soldiers and hunters.
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- press office — a section of a government department or other organization responsible for dealing with the press
- presser foot — a forked, metal device on a sewing machine used for holding the fabric in place while stitching.
- prison fever — typhus.
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- pro-suffrage — the right to vote, especially in a political election.
- professional — following an occupation as a means of livelihood or for gain: a professional builder.
- professorate — the office or the period of service of a professor.
- professoress — a female professor
- professorial — a teacher of the highest academic rank in a college or university, who has been awarded the title Professor in a particular branch of learning; a full professor: a professor of Spanish literature.
- profitlessly — in such a way as to not yield profit, as in financial gains or general benefits or advantages