12-letter words containing o, t, f, r
- hydatidiform — like or resembling a hydatid
- hydrosulfate — a salt formed by the direct union of sulfuric acid with an organic base, especially an alkaloid, and usually more soluble than the base.
- hydrosulfite — hyposulfite (def 1).
- hyperfiction — nonlinear fiction created in electronic hypertext form and containing multiple plot developments, endings, etc., that can be evoked interactively.
- imperfection — an imperfect detail; flaw: a law full of imperfections.
- imperforated — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- imperforates — Plural form of imperforate.
- inconformity — lack of conformity; failure or refusal to conform; nonconformity.
- infiltration — the act or process of infiltrating.
- infiltrators — Plural form of infiltrator.
- inflammatory — tending to arouse anger, hostility, passion, etc.: inflammatory speeches.
- inflationary — of, pertaining to, reflective of, or causing inflation: inflationary prices.
- inflorescent — Of, pertaining to or causing inflorescence.
- informations — (legal) Plural form of information.
- infraduction — (medicine) The turning downward of a part, especially of the eye.
- infraorbital — (anatomy) Below the orbit (of the eye).
- inter-office — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- interfemoral — situated between the thighs
- interfoliate — to interleave
- interfrontal — situated between the frontal bones
- iron sulfate — ferrous sulfate.
- irreflection — lack of careful or long consideration
- jeffersonite — (mineralogy) A variety of pyroxene of olive-green color passing into brown. It contains zinc.
- large-format — of or relating to a camera with an image area of 5 inches by 4 inches or more
- laticiferous — bearing or containing latex.
- leaf through — one of the expanded, usually green organs borne by the stem of a plant.
- life history — the series of living phenomena exhibited by an organism in the course of its development from inception to death.
- life support — equipment to sustain a patient's life
- life-support — of or relating to equipment or measures that sustain or artificially substitute for essential body functions, as breathing or disposal of body wastes: Without life-support equipment, the patient might die.
- lofting iron — a club whose head has a sloped face, for lofting the ball.
- look out for — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- looked-after — (of children) brought up by the state in institutions because their parents are dead or not able to care for them properly
- loosestrifes — Plural form of loosestrife.
- lovecraftian — referring to or reminiscent of the work of the American fantasy and horror fiction author H.P. Lovecraft (1870–1937)
- malformation — faulty or anomalous formation or structure, especially in a living body: malformation of the teeth.
- man of straw — straw man.
- mark out for — to select for or note as selected for
- mary of teck — Mary (def 4).
- memory farts — (jargon, humour) The flatulent sounds that some MS-DOS box BIOSes (most notably AMI's) make when checking memory at boot time.
- midafternoon — the part of the afternoon centering approximately on three o'clock; the period approximately halfway between noon and sunset.
- 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
- modificatory — modifying.
- moire effect — the appearance, when two regularly spaced sets of lines are superimposed, of a new set of lines (moiré pattern) passing through the points where the original lines cross at small angles.
- mortifyingly — In a mortifying manner; so as to cause great embarrassment.
- mother craft — a spaceship providing facilities and supplies for a number of smaller craft, or for astronauts
- motherfucker — a mean, despicable, or vicious person.
- mothproofing — Present participle of mothproof.