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13-letter words containing f, o, t, n

  • self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
  • self-soothing — that soothes: a soothing voice.
  • sensate focus — a series of touching exercises designed to increase intimacy in a sexual relationship
  • shaft encoder — A shaft encoder is a sensor for measuring how fast a shaft rotates.
  • signification — meaning; import; sense.
  • significatory — serving to signify
  • skin friction — the friction acting on a solid body when it is moving through a fluid
  • slash fiction — a type or piece of fan fiction involving usually same-sex romantic relationships between fictional characters or famous people, whether or not the romances actually exist: Sherlock Holmes/Dr. Watson slash fiction. Also called slash.
  • small fortune — a large sum of money
  • soda fountain — a counter, as in a restaurant or drugstore, at which sodas, ice cream, light meals, etc., are served.
  • soft currency — econ: fluctuating value
  • soixante-neuf — sixty-nine (def 4).
  • soothfastness — the state of being soothfast
  • sound effects — any sounds artificially produced, reproduced from a recording, etc, to create a theatrical effect, such as the bringing together of two halves of a hollow coconut shell to simulate a horse's gallop; used in plays, films, etc
  • south african — of southern Africa.
  • southern fish — the constellation Piscis Austrinus.
  • space fiction — a book, film, TV series, etc, set in outer space
  • specification — the act of specifying.
  • staff section — section (def 10b).
  • staghorn fern — any of several epiphytic Old World ferns of the genus Platycerium, having broad, often antlerlike leaves and cultivated as a houseplant.
  • staminiferous — bearing or having a stamen or stamens.
  • state of aden — Aden (def 2).
  • state of mind — mental condition, mood
  • step function — a function that is constant on each of a finite set of subintervals of its domain, the union of the subintervals being the domain.
  • sternforemost — Nautical. with the stern, foremost.
  • stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
  • strong safety — the defensive back assigned to cover the area across from the strong side of the opponent's offensive line and primarily responsible for defending against pass plays.
  • suffocatingly — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
  • sulfonmethane — a colorless, crystalline compound, C7H16O4S2, used in medicine as a soporific and hypnotic
  • superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
  • surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
  • swift-flowing — moving rapidly
  • tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
  • tale of genji — a novel (1001–20?) by Lady Murasaki, dealing with Japanese court life.
  • tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
  • tea-of-heaven — a shrub, Hydrangea macrophylla serrata, of the saxifrage family, native to Japan and Korea, having hairy, ovate leaves and flat or slightly arched clusters of blue or white flowers.
  • teofilo otoni — a city in E central Brazil.
  • testification — the act of testifying or giving testimony.
  • tet offensive — an offensive by Vietcong and North Vietnamese forces against South Vietnamese and U.S. positions in South Vietnam, beginning on Jan. 31, 1968, the start of Tet.
  • the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
  • the following — the one or ones to be mentioned immediately
  • the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
  • the offensive — an attitude or position of aggression
  • the pants off — If someone bores, charms, or scares the pants off you, for example, they bore, charm, or scare you a lot.
  • thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
  • thereinbefore — before that
  • think less of — to have a lower opinion of
  • think more of — to have a higher opinion of
  • think much of — to have a high opinion of
  • threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
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