11-letter words containing o, t, f
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soft sawder — flattery; compliments
- soft skills — emotional intelligence
- 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 tissue — the soft parts of the human body as distinct from bone and cartilage
- soft x-rays — a type of x-ray that has its wavelength between 20 and 200 angstroms
- soft-boiled — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- soft-finned — having fins supported by articulated rays rather than by spines, as a malacopterygian.
- soft-footed — having or making light, quiet footsteps
- soft-headed — foolish; stupid.
- 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.
- soft-spoken — (of persons) speaking with a soft or gentle voice; mild.
- 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.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- 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.
- spot fixing — the act of deliberately engineering an outcome within a sporting contest without attempting to alter the outcome of the contest itself
- 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.
- stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
- standoffish — somewhat aloof or reserved; cold and unfriendly.
- steppenwolf — a novel (1927) by Hermann Hesse.
- stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
- 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.
- stone-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- stony-faced — having a rigid, expressionless face.
- 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
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- stuffed toy — A stuffed toy is the same as a stuffed animal.
- 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.
- suffixation — Grammar. an affix that follows the element to which it is added, as -ly in kindly.
- suffocation — to kill by preventing the access of air to the blood through the lungs or analogous organs, as gills; strangle.
- sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
- 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.