12-letter words containing f, r, o, m
- nonperformer — a person or thing that is not performing well or properly.
- normal fault — gravity fault.
- oil platform — An oil platform is a structure that is used when getting oil from the ground under the sea.
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- organic farm — a farm where organic methods are used for agriculture and animal husbandry
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- out of humor — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- overfamiliar — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- oversimplify — make too simple
- oxford comma — a comma between the final items in a list, often preceding the word 'and' or 'or', such as the final comma in the list newspapers, magazines, and books
- oxford frame — a frame for a picture, mirror, etc., consisting of four straight pieces whose ends project beyond the corners.
- pelecaniform — of, or having the nature of, an order (Pelecaniformes) of swimming birds having all four toes connected in a webbed foot, including pelicans and cormorants
- performative — (of an expression or statement) performing an act by the very fact of being uttered, as with the expression “I promise,” that performs the act of promising.
- placentiform — shaped like a placenta, with a flat rounded form
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- platform car — a railroad freight car having no enclosing sides or top; a flatcar.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- portal frame — a frame, usually of steel, consisting of two uprights and a cross beam at the top: the simplest structural unit in a framed building or a doorway
- 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
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- preformation — previous formation.
- preformative — a prefixture in Semitic languages
- preformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- prime factor — any number in the set of prime numbers that is also a factor of a given integer
- pro-feminism — the doctrine advocating social, political, and all other rights of women equal to those of men.
- problem-free — without problems
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- rachmaninoff — Sergei Wassilievitch [sur-gey vuh-seel-yuh-vich;; Russian syir-gyey vuh-syee-lyi-vyich] /sɜrˈgeɪ vəˈsil yə vɪtʃ;; Russian syɪrˈgyeɪ vʌˈsyi lyɪ vyɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1873–1943, Russian pianist and composer.
- ramification — the act or process of ramifying.
- recomforture — consolation; comfort
- recover-from — to get back or regain (something lost or taken away): to recover a stolen watch.
- reflectogram — an image of an under-drawing or image taken from beneath the surface of paint in a work of art
- reform flask — an English salt-glazed stoneware flask of the early 19th century formed as an effigy of one of the figures connected with the Reform Bill of 1832.
- reformatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- rod from god — a weapon, currently in the development stage, that consists of a metal cylinder that is fired from an orbiting spacecraft at a target on earth. The cylinder is calculated to reach speeds in excess of 7000 mph, hitting its target with the power of a small atomic weapon
- roman a clef — a novel that represents historical events and characters under the guise of fiction.
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- rotflmaoastc — (chat) Rolling on the floor laughing my ass (or arse) off and scaring the cat. The superlative form of ROTFL.
- royal family — the immediate family of a reigning monarch.
- self-mockery — gentle humour at one's own expense
- self-torment — an act or instance of tormenting oneself, as with worry or guilt.
- seminiferous — Anatomy. conveying or containing semen.
- serpentiform — shaped like a snake.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- small-format — A small-format store is one in which a large retail chain offers only part of their range in a smaller store.