11-letter words containing f, o, s, t
- foster home — a household in which a child is raised by someone other than its natural or adoptive parent.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fosterlings — Plural form of fosterling.
- foundations — Plural form of foundation.
- four-masted — carrying four masts.
- four-poster — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- four-seater — a vehicle providing seats for four people
- four-stroke — four-cycle.
- fourchettes — Plural form of fourchette.
- fourteenths — Plural form of fourteenth.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- freebooters — Plural form of freebooter.
- frivolities — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- frondescent — Leafy; becoming leafy; resembling leaves.
- frontcourts — Plural form of frontcourt.
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- frost point — the temperature of the air at which hoarfrost begins to form.
- frost smoke — an ice fog caused by extremely cold air flowing over a body of comparatively warm water, especially in polar regions.
- frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
- frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- frotteurism — (sexuality) The act of rubbing one’s genitalia against another’s person, usually that of a stranger. Must be non-consensual and is considered a psychiatric condition as well as a criminal offense in most places. (If consensual, it is known as frottage).
- frotteurist — A frotteur.
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- hoppus foot — unit of volume for round timber
- host family — family one lodges with
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).