12-letter words containing o, f, s, t
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- malefactions — Plural form of malefaction.
- malfunctions — Plural form of malfunction.
- man of straw — straw man.
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- metafictions — Plural form of metafiction.
- mifepristone — an antigestational drug, C 29 H 35 NO 2 , that prevents a fertilized egg from attaching to the uterine wall by blocking the action of progesterone.
- misformation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- misfortunate — Having suffered misfortune; pitiable.
- mixed forest — a forest filling the transition from natural coniferous to deciduous forest, and containing both types of tree
- mosquito fly — dragonfly (def 1).
- mosquitofish — any of several fishes that feed on mosquito larvae, as Gambusia affinis, found in the southeastern U.S., now introduced into other parts of the world for mosquito control.
- multifarious — having many different parts, elements, forms, etc.
- multiflorous — bearing many flowers, as a peduncle.
- myofilaments — Plural form of myofilament.
- noise factor — the ratio of the noise output of an ideal device to the noise output of the unit being tested.
- non-feminist — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- oasification — The process of restoring water, soil, and plant life to an environment that has been degraded by soil erosion.
- obfuscations — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- of necessity — something necessary or indispensable: food, shelter, and other necessities of life.
- of o's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- of substance — wealthy
- of two minds — If you are of two minds, you are uncertain about what to do, especially when you have to choose between two courses of action.
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset sheet — a rubber-coated sheet in an offset press which acts as the intermediate surface to transfer the impression to the paper
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- olfactronics — the measurement and analysis of smells through instruments
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- ossification — the act or process of ossifying.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of doors — outside, outdoors
- out of focus — blurred, indistinct
- out of hours — Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out of sorts — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- out of stock — a supply of goods kept on hand for sale to customers by a merchant, distributor, manufacturer, etc.; inventory.
- out of style — no longer fashionable
- out-of-doors — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out-of-state — of, relating to, or from another state of the U.S.: a car with an out-of-state license plate; out-of-state vacationers.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- perforations — the holes punched that allow individual stamps, coupons, etc to be easily separated
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery