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11-letter words containing o, t, f

  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
  • rocket fuel — an explosive charge that powers a rocket
  • room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
  • roosterfish — a large, edible fish, Nematistius pectoralis, inhabiting the warmer waters of the Pacific Ocean, having the first dorsal fin composed of brightly colored filamentous rays.
  • rostovtzeff — Michael Ivanovich [mahy-kuh l i-vah-nuh-vich] /ˈmaɪ kəl ɪˈvɑ nə vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1870–1952, U.S. historian, born in Russia.
  • rough draft — writing: unfinished version
  • rough stuff — violence, as physical assault, torture or shooting.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
  • rufter hood — a temporary, loosely fitted hood used on newly captured hawks.
  • rule out of — If someone rules you out of a contest or activity, they say that you cannot be involved in it. If something rules you out of a contest or activity, it prevents you from being involved in it.
  • safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
  • safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
  • safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
  • safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
  • san stefano — the former name of Yesilkoy, a town in Turkey, near Istanbul: treaty between Russia and Turkey 1878.
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
  • schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
  • scottsbluff — a city in W Nebraska, on the North Platte River.
  • scroll foot — French foot (def 1).
  • second-feet — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • second-foot — a unit of measurement of liquid flow, especially of rivers, equal to one cubic foot per second.
  • section off — If an area is sectioned off, it is separated by a wall, fence, or other barrier from the surrounding area.
  • sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
  • self-profit — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
  • self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • septiferous — in possession of a septum or partition
  • set fire to — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
  • set on fire — a state, process, or instance of combustion in which fuel or other material is ignited and combined with oxygen, giving off light, heat, and flame.
  • set on foot — to initiate or start (something)
  • shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
  • shirt front — the front of a shirt, especially the part that is exposed when a jacket or vest is worn.
  • shock front — the forward boundary surface of a shock wave.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
  • shot effect — random fluctuations in the emission of electrons from a hot cathode, causing a hissing or sputtering sound (shot noise) in an audio amplifier and causing snow on a television screen.
  • sinfonietta — a short symphony.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
  • slow-footed — proceeding at a slow pace.
  • snap out of — to make a sudden, sharp, distinct sound; crack, as a whip; crackle.
  • soft centre — a chocolate that has a soft filling
  • soft cheese — a type of cheese that is made in a relatively short time and has a soft, creamy or almost runny texture
  • soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
  • soft ground — an etching ground usually mixed with tallow. Compare hard ground.
  • soft hyphen — a hyphen that is used only in breaking a word at the end of a line of text.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • soft option — If you take the soft option, you do the thing that is easiest or least likely to cause trouble in a particular situation.
  • soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
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