13-letter words containing r, t, f, o
- sugar factory — a factory which refines sugar from organic sources into a form that can be used in cooking etc
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- superfetation — the fertilization of an ovum in a female mammal already pregnant.
- superfortress — a heavy, long-range, four-engined bomber used during World War II.
- surfer's knot — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
- tariff office — a company whose premiums are based on a tariff agreed with other insurance companies
- tariff reform — increase in import duties
- tariffication — the creation, fixing, or conversion of a tariff
- tassel flower — love-lies-bleeding.
- telescopiform — having body parts which resemble a telescope in that the retract within one another
- testificatory — related to a person who witnesses or an object used as evidence
- tetrafluoride — a fluoride containing four fluorine atoms.
- thalamifloral — relating to the Thalamiflorae
- the better of — having recovered from
- the comforter — the Holy Spirit: John 14:26
- the far north — the Arctic and sub-Arctic regions of the world
- the father of — a very large, severe, etc, example of a specified kind
- the foregoing — the one or ones previously mentioned
- the mayflower — the ship in which the Pilgrim Fathers sailed from Plymouth to Massachusetts in 1620
- the worst off — those people who are in the worst situation
- the-godfather — a novel (1969) by Mario Puzo.
- thenceforward — from that time or place onward.
- thereinbefore — before that
- think more of — to have a higher opinion of
- thirty-fourth — next after the thirty-third; being the ordinal number for 34.
- three-fourths — In American English, people sometimes use three-fourths to mean three-quarters.
- threefoldness — the state or condition of being threefold
- thurification — the act of incense-burning
- tight forward — one of a number of forwards who are bound wholly into the scrum
- to bear fruit — If the effort that you put into something or a particular way of doing something bears fruit, it is successful and produces good results.
- to catch fire — If an object or substance catches fire, it starts burning.
- to fall short — If someone or something is or stops short of a place, they have not quite reached it. If they are or fall short of an amount, they have not quite achieved it.
- to go off air — to stop broadcasting
- to hold forth — If you hold forth on a subject, you speak confidently and for a long time about it, especially to a group of people.
- to perfection — impeccably, perfectly
- to stand firm — If someone stands firm, they refuse to change their mind about something.
- toasting fork — a long-handled fork used for cooking or toasting frankfurters, marshmallows, bread, etc., usually over an open fire.
- tortilla flat — a novel (1935) by John Steinbeck.
- tour de force — an exceptional achievement by an artist, author, or the like, that is unlikely to be equaled by that person or anyone else; stroke of genius: Herman Melville's Moby Dick was a tour de force.
- trading floor — stock exchange: room where trading is done
- traffic court — a court that passes on alleged violations of traffic laws.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transfrontier — the part of a country that borders another country; boundary; border.
- transfusional — of or relating to transfusion
- trifunctional — pertaining to molecules that can react at three sites.
- trig function — Also called circular function. a function of an angle, as sine or cosine, expressed as the ratio of the sides of a right triangle.
- tropical fish — any of numerous small, usually brightly colored fishes, indigenous to the tropics, and often kept and bred in home aquariums.
- trout fishing — angling to catch trout
- tubuliflorous — having the corolla tubular in all the perfect flowers of a head, as certain composite plants.
- turn of speed — If a person, animal, or vehicle has a good turn of speed, they have the ability to move fast.