7-letter words containing f, o, t
- giftbox — A box of gifts.
- goutfly — a fly whose larvae infect crops
- grafton — Sue, born 1940, U.S. detective novelist.
- hakafot — a ceremony on Simhath Torah and on other occasions in which members of a synagogue congregation carry Torah scrolls around the synagogue seven or more times.
- hayloft — a loft in a stable or barn for the storage of hay.
- hentoff — Nat(han Irving) born 1925, U.S. writer and critic.
- hit off — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hoof it — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hot fix — (storage) Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their network file server operating system, Novell NetWare, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and bad block re-mapping.
- hot for — sexually attracted to
- hotfoot — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hotwife — (slang) A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval.
- infobot — (chat) A bot that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system. Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries. Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
can someone tell me what: $num9 = substr($number,9,1); means eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr". just tell me Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go look it up in the dictionary"?! eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell you. read the documentation. eesh -- if you haven't man pages or perldoc, you can read them on the 'net. purl, perlfunc? well, perlfunc is Perl builtin functions, at man perlfunc or http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/. - introfy — to improve the ability of (a sanitary towel, nappy, etc) to absorb liquid
- jetfoil — a passenger-carrying, jet-propelled hydrofoil, often having a control and stabilization system like that of an aircraft.
- kit fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- kit-fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- koftgar — (in India) a person skilled in the art of inlaying steel with gold (koftgari)
- let off — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- liftboy — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- liftoff — Aeronautics, Rocketry. the action of an aircraft in becoming airborne or of a rocket in rising from its launching site under its own power. the instant when such action occurs.
- loftier — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loftily — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- lofting — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- low-fat — of or being a food or style of cooking that contains or uses very little butter, oil, or other fat, usually three grams of fat or less per serving.
- midfoot — In the middle of one's foot; between the heel and the toes.
- mitford — Mary Russell, 1787–1855, English novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist.
- mofette — a noxious emanation, consisting chiefly of carbon dioxide, escaping from the earth in regions of nearly extinct volcanic activity.
- mortify — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- motific — Producing motion.
- non-fat — without fat or fat solids; having the fat solids removed, as skim milk: nonfat milk.
- nonfact — a thing that is not true or provable
- nutloaf — a savoury loaf made from nuts, vegetables, rice, etc
- octofid — split into eight sections
- of foot — in manner of movement
- of late — occurring, coming, or being after the usual or proper time: late frosts; a late spring.
- of note — important
- offbeat — differing from the usual or expected; unconventional: an offbeat comedian.
- offcast — discarded or rejected; castoff: his offcast suits.
- offcuts — Plural form of offcut.
- offsets — Plural form of offset.
- offsite — Away from a main location; in a place not owned by a particular organisation.
- offtake — a pipe or passage for conducting smoke, a current of air, or the like, to an uptake or downtake.
- oftener — More often.
- oftenly — (nonstandard) often.
- on foot — (in vertebrates) the terminal part of the leg, below the ankle joint, on which the body stands and moves.
- ooftish — any kind of money or cash
- out for — making a determined effort to get or do
- outface — to cause to submit by or as if by staring down; face or stare down.
- outfall — the outlet or place of discharge of a river, drain, sewer, etc.