11-letter words containing o, r, f
- crow's feet — Crow's feet are wrinkles which some older people have at the outside corners of their eyes.
- crow's-foot — a wrinkle at the outer corner of the eye
- crowdfunded — Simple past tense and past participle of crowdfund.
- crown graft — a type of graft in which the scion is inserted at the crown of the stock
- cruciferous — of, relating to, or belonging to the plant family Cruciferae
- crucifixion — Crucifixion is a way of killing people which was common in the Roman Empire, in which they were tied or nailed to a cross and left to die.
- cry out for — If you say that something cries out for a particular thing or action, you mean that it needs that thing or action very much.
- culmiferous — (of grasses) having a hollow jointed stem
- cupriferous — (of a substance such as an ore) containing or yielding copper
- curry favor — to try to win favor by flattery, fawning, etc.
- cypriniform — Any of many ray-finned fish, of the order Cypriniformes, such as the carps, minnows and loaches.
- dance floor — In a restaurant or night club, the dance floor is the area where people can dance.
- dap fortran — ["Efficient High Speed Computing with the Distributed Array Processor", P.M. Flanders et al, pp.113-127 (1977)].
- day of rest — the Sabbath; Sunday
- declare for — If you declare for something or someone, you say that you are in favour of them.
- deep-frozen — to quick-freeze (food).
- deflagrator — a piece of equipment for bringing about deflagration
- deflazacort — A glucocorticoid prodrug used as an anti-inflammatory and immunosuppressant.
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- deflowering — Present participle of deflower.
- deforcement — (legal) A keeping out by force or wrong; a wrongful withholding, as of lands or tenements, to which another has a right.
- deforesting — Present participle of deforest.
- deformalize — to make (something) less formal
- deformation — the act of deforming; distortion
- deformative — making worse by alteration
- deformities — Plural form of deformity.
- delta force — (in the US) an élite army unit involved in counterterrorist operations abroad
- diffraction — the phenomenon exhibited by wave fronts that, passing the edge of an opaque body, are modulated, thereby causing a redistribution of energy within the front: it is detectable in light waves by the presence of a pattern of closely spaced dark and light bands (diffraction pattern) at the edge of a shadow.
- dinner fork — a fork used to eat the main course of a meal.
- dis-favored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disafforest — To deforest.
- disc floret — any of the small tubular flowers at the centre of the flower head of certain composite plants, such as the daisy
- discifloral — having flowers in which the receptacle is expanded into a conspicuous disk, as in composite plants.
- discomforts — Plural form of discomfort.
- disfavoring — Present participle of disfavor.
- disfavoured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfavour.
- disfavourer — one who does not favour
- disfrocking — Present participle of disfrock.
- disinformed — Simple past tense and past participle of disinform.
- disk flower — one of a number of small tubular flowers composing the disk of certain composite plants.
- dittersdorf — Karl Ditters von [kahrl dit-uh rs fuh n] /kɑrl ˈdɪt ərs fən/ (Show IPA), 1739–99, Austrian violinist and composer.
- diversiform — differing in form; of various forms.
- do duty for — to act as a substitute for
- dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
- dog fancier — a person with a special interest in dogs
- dog officer — dogcatcher.
- dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
- dorsiferous — borne on the back, as the sori on most ferns.
- dorsiflexor — a muscle causing dorsiflexion.
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.