13-letter words containing o, f, s, t, r
- 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.
- kraft process — a process for making wood pulp by digesting wood chips in an alkaline liquor consisting chiefly of caustic soda together with sodium sulfate.
- 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
- magnetiferous — (dated) Producing or conducting magnetism.
- make sport of — to mock or ridicule; poke fun at
- malformations — Plural form of malformation.
- manufactories — Plural form of manufactory.
- market forces — factors driving the economy
- marsh trefoil — buck bean.
- mesne profits — rents or profits accruing during the rightful owner's exclusion from his land
- metalliferous — containing or yielding metal.
- microfelsitic — (of a rock) showing evidence of crystallization having begun, but not yet having formed any crystals
- microsoft dos — Microsoft Disk Operating System
- microsoft iis — Internet Information Server
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- narrow-fisted — tight-fisted.
- nectariferous — producing nectar.
- noncolourfast — (of a fabric) having a colour that tends to fade when washed or worn
- nonconformist — a person who refuses to conform, as to established customs, attitudes, or ideas.
- nonesterified — relating to a fatty acid that is not esterified with glycerol to make glyceride
- of all others — above all others
- of many parts — having many different abilities
- off the rails — into or in a state of dysfunction or disorder
- olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
- one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
- orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
- osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
- otto of roses — rose oil.
- out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
- out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
- outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
- paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- parasoft corp — Distributors of the message passing system Express.
- passion fruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
- perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
- perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
- photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
- platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
- platiniferous — platinum-bearing
- pommes frites — French fries
- pontificators — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- port of spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- port-of-spain — (used with a plural verb) two islands in the N Atlantic Ocean, off the NE coast of Venezuela.
- post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor