11-letter words containing o, t, f, r, s
- soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- soft solder — a solder fusible at temperatures below 700°F (370°C), generally an alloy of lead and tin.
- soft target — sth easy to hit
- soft x-rays — a type of x-ray that has its wavelength between 20 and 200 angstroms
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- sonata form — a musical form comprising an exposition, in which the main theme or themes are stated, a development section, a recapitulation of the material in the exposition, and, usually, a coda.
- sparrowfart — the very early morning
- 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.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- 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.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- 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.
- swell front — a horizontally convex front, as of a chest of drawers.
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- thornproofs — garments that resist penetration by thorns
- thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- thuriferous — producing frankincense
- 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.
- tort-feasor — a person who commits a tort.
- transfixion — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
- waterfronts — Plural form of waterfront.
- waterproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of waterproof.
- whistle for — to make a clear musical sound, a series of such sounds, or a high-pitched, warbling sound by the forcible expulsion of the breath through a small opening formed by contracting the lips, or through the teeth, with the aid of the tongue.
- white frost — a heavy coating of frost.
- yttriferous — yielding or containing yttrium.