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13-letter words containing s, e, o, f

  • olfactometers — Plural form of olfactometer.
  • on course for — If you are on course for something, you are likely to achieve it.
  • on one's feet — a plural of foot.
  • on sufferance — passive permission resulting from lack of interference; tolerance, especially of something wrong or illegal (usually preceded by on or by).
  • one's forties — the ages between 40 and 49
  • orate fratres — the call to prayer, addressed by the celebrant of the Mass to the people just before the Secret.
  • osmoconformer — Any marine invertebrate that maintains its internal salinity such that it is always equal to the surrounding seawater.
  • osteofibrosis — loss of calcium from the bones, causing them to become fragile
  • otto of roses — rose oil.
  • out of season — one of the four periods of the year (spring, summer, autumn, and winter), beginning astronomically at an equinox or solstice, but geographically at different dates in different climates.
  • out of square — a rectangle having all four sides of equal length.
  • out-of-stater — a visitor from another state of the U.S.: Many out-of-staters come to our summer music festival.
  • outdo oneself — to do something better than one ever did before or thought one could do
  • outperformers — Plural form of outperformer.
  • over-effusive — unduly demonstrative; lacking reserve: effusive greetings; an effusive person.
  • pact of steel — a military alliance concluded between Nazi Germany and Fascist Italy on May 22, 1939, committing each to assist the other in the event of war with another power and pledging that neither would seek a separate peace or armistice.
  • paper profits — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
  • passionflower — any chiefly American climbing vine or shrub of the genus Passiflora, having showy flowers and a pulpy berry or fruit that in some species is edible.
  • perfect storm — a detrimental or calamitous situation or event arising from the powerful combined effect of a unique set of circumstances: a perfect storm battering corporate pension plans.
  • perfectionism — any of various doctrines holding that religious, moral, social, or political perfection is attainable.
  • perfectionist — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
  • personal foul — a foul called in certain games, as basketball or football, for illegal body contact or rough, unsportsmanlike play.
  • petroliferous — containing or yielding petroleum
  • photofinisher — a person whose profession is photofinishing
  • piece of piss — something easily obtained of achieved
  • piece of shit — despicable person
  • piked dogfish — the spiny dogfish.
  • place of arms — an area in a fortress or a fortified town where troops could assemble for defense.
  • platform shoe — a shoe with a platform.
  • platiniferous — platinum-bearing
  • point of sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
  • point-of-sale — the store, dealer, or other retail outlet where an item is sold: from manufacturer to point-of-sale.
  • polliniferous — Botany. producing or bearing pollen.
  • pommes frites — French fries
  • porcupinefish — any of several fishes of the family Diodontidae, especially Diodon hystrix, of tropical seas, capable of inflating the body with water or air until it resembles a globe, with erection of the long spines covering the skin.
  • post feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
  • post-feminism — a way of thinking that develops, or reacts to or against previous feminist ideology
  • post-feminist — relating to or occurring in the period after the feminist movement of the 1970s.
  • post-freudian — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
  • postinfection — of, relating to or occurring in the period after infection
  • press of sail — as much sail as the wind or other conditions will permit a ship to carry.
  • press officer — A press officer is a person who is employed by an organization to give information about that organization to the press.
  • profectitious — (of money or property) proceeding from a parent or derived from an ancestor
  • professoriate — a group of professors.
  • professorship — the office or post of a professor.
  • proliferously — by proliferation
  • quartziferous — consisting of or containing quartz: quartziferous rock.
  • recomfortless — having no comfort; comfortless
  • refashionment — the act or state of being refashioned
  • reforestation — to replant trees on (land denuded by cutting or fire).
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