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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.
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