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11-letter words containing o, r, f

  • spent force — If you refer to someone who used to be powerful as a spent force, you mean that they no longer have any power or influence.
  • spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
  • spiraliform — having or resembling spiral lines
  • spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
  • splashproof — resistant to splashing
  • spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
  • sporiferous — bearing spores.
  • square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
  • stipitiform — having the form of a stipe.
  • stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
  • stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
  • store front — Store fronts are the windows of stores that can be looked into from the street, often displaying the types of product each store sells.
  • storm force — (on the Beaufort scale) force 10 0r 11
  • strand wolf — brown hyena.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • street food — ready-to-eat food sold on the street or in a park, open-air market, or other outdoor public place.
  • strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
  • styliferous — having a style (part of the female organ of a plant)
  • subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
  • sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
  • suffer from — be ill with
  • sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
  • sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
  • superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
  • sure-footed — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
  • surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
  • surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
  • swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
  • sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
  • t formation — an offensive formation in which the quarterback lines up directly behind the center with the fullback about three yards behind the quarterback and the halfbacks on opposite sides of and about one yard from the fullback.
  • tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
  • tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
  • term of art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
  • the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
  • the inferno — hell; the infernal region
  • thenceforth — from that time or place onward.
  • theretofore — before or until that time.
  • third floor — the storey of a building immediately above the second and three floors up from the ground
  • third force — a political faction or party, etc., occupying an intermediate position between two others representing opposite extremes.
  • thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
  • thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
  • thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
  • throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
  • thuriferous — producing frankincense
  • tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
  • timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
  • tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.
  • tit for tat — with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc.: He answered their insults tit for tat.
  • tit-for-tat — A tit-for-tat action is one where someone takes revenge on another person for what they have done by doing something similar to them.
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