11-letter words containing o, t, f
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
- out of luck — the force that seems to operate for good or ill in a person's life, as in shaping circumstances, events, or opportunities: With my luck I'll probably get pneumonia.
- out of step — a movement made by lifting the foot and setting it down again in a new position, accompanied by a shifting of the weight of the body in the direction of the new position, as in walking, running, or dancing.
- out of sync — out of synchronization (with)
- out of time — having passed a deadline
- out of town — of, relating to, or from another city or town: We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- out of true — not properly set, adjusted, aligned, etc.; inexact
- out of turn — to cause to move around on an axis or about a center; rotate: to turn a wheel.
- out of work — exertion or effort directed to produce or accomplish something; labor; toil.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-body — of, relating to, or characterized by the dissociative sensation of perceiving oneself from an external vantage point, as though the mind or soul has left the body and is acting on its own: an alleged out-of-body experience.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out-of-door — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-of-town — of, relating to, or from another city or town: We're expecting out-of-town visitors tomorrow.
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- outfighting — a battle or combat.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- outperforms — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of outperform.
- overcertify — to certify (a bank check) for an amount greater than the balance in the drawer's account.
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overfreight — to load too heavily
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
- p.p. factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- pacificator — to pacify.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.