13-letter words containing f, r, o, s, t, l
- killing frost — the occurrence of temperatures cold enough to kill all but the hardiest vegetation, especially the last such occurrence in spring and the first in fall, events that limit the agricultural growing season.
- leapfrog test — a diagnostic technique using arithmetic or logical operations in a routine to manage the capacity of storage media, transfer data, and check the results.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- lord of hosts — Jehovah; God.
- lose track of — to fail to follow the passage, course, or progress of
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- of all others — above all others
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
- relief troops — soldiers sent to an area of conflict or a disaster area in order to provide aid or assistance there
- reptiliferous — (of rocks, etc) yielding fossilized reptiles
- self-creation — the act of producing or causing to exist; the act of creating; engendering.
- self-ignorant — lacking in knowledge or training; unlearned: an ignorant man.
- self-oriented — the Orient, the countries of Asia, especially East Asia. (formerly) the countries to the E of the Mediterranean.
- self-portrait — a portrait of oneself done by oneself.
- simplificator — a person who simplifies matters
- slatted floor — a floor made with slats of wood so that water can drain away
- small fortune — a large sum of money
- soft shoulder — the unpaved edge of a road.
- stoloniferous — producing or bearing stolons.
- storax family — the plant family Styracaceae, characterized by trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, clusters of bell-shaped white flowers, and fleshy or dry fruit, and including the silver bell, snowbell, and storax.
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
- to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- wafflestomper — a shoe with a thick sole resembling a waffle