11-letter words containing o, t, f
- full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
- functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
- furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
- furthermore — moreover; besides; in addition: Furthermore, he left orders not to be disturbed.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- fustigation — A beating with a club.
- futz around — to pass time in idleness (usually followed by around).
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- go off with — sb
- granitiform — resembling granite
- grow out of — to increase by natural development, as any living organism or part by assimilation of nutriment; increase in size or substance.
- growth fund — a mutual fund that invests primarily in growth stocks.
- guttiferous — relating to plants that produce gum or gum-like fluids
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- have it off — to have sexual intercourse
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- heterograft — xenograft.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- hoppus foot — unit of volume for round timber
- host family — family one lodges with
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- i formation — an offensive alignment in which the backs are positioned in line directly behind the quarterback.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- idiot-proof — built, organized, written, etc., in such a way as to be usable by or understandable to any person of average intelligence or skill: an idiot-proof camera.
- if you must — You say 'if you must' when you know that you cannot stop someone doing something that you think is wrong or stupid.
- if you want — as you please