12-letter words containing t, e, f
- off the rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off the wall — of or relating to a wall: wall space.
- off the wind — away from the direction from which the wind is blowing
- off-the-cuff — with little or no preparation; extemporaneous; impromptu: a speaker with a good off-the-cuff delivery.
- off-the-face — (of a woman's hat) made without a brim.
- off-the-rack — (of clothing) not made to specific or individual requirements; ready-made: off-the-rack men's suits.
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- office party — a party or informal social gathering for all the employees in a particular organization or department
- offset paper — paper used in a printing method in which the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset press — a printing press used in the offset process, whereby a printing the impression is made onto an intermediate surface, such as a rubber blanket, which transfers it to the paper
- offset sheet — a rubber-coated sheet in an offset press which acts as the intermediate surface to transfer the impression to the paper
- old favorite — If you refer to something as an old favorite, you mean that it has been in existence for a long time and everyone knows it or likes it.
- olefiant gas — ethylene (def 2).
- olfactometer — a device for estimating the keenness of the sense of smell.
- olfactometry — The study and measurement of smells.
- on the fence — a barrier enclosing or bordering a field, yard, etc., usually made of posts and wire or wood, used to prevent entrance, to confine, or to mark a boundary.
- on the fritz — on the fritz, not in working order: Our TV went on the fritz last night.
- on the shelf — a thin slab of wood, metal, etc., fixed horizontally to a wall or in a frame, for supporting objects.
- on your feet — position: standing
- orthoformate — an ester of orthoformic acid.
- ostrich fern — a tall North American fern, Matteuccia struthiopteris, with large mature leaves that resemble ostrich plumes, a popular landscaping plant whose curled new leaves, called fiddleheads, are eaten as a vegetable.
- out of order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- out of scale — If something is out of scale with the things near it, it is too big or too small in relation to them.
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out of style — no longer fashionable
- out of tempo — not in tempo
- out of voice — with the voice temporarily in a poor condition, esp for singing
- out-of-state — of, relating to, or from another state of the U.S.: a car with an out-of-state license plate; out-of-state vacationers.
- outer office — the reception area of an office, outside of the main working area
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- outline font — (text) (Or "vector font") A font defined as a set of lines and curves as opposed to a bitmap font. An outline font (e.g. PostScript, TrueType, RISC OS) can be scaled to any size and otherwise transformed more easily than a bitmap font, and with more attractive results, though this requires a lot of numerical processing. The result of transforming a character in an outline font in a particular way is often saved as a bitmap in a font cache to avoid repeating the calculations if that character is to be drawn again.
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-inflate — to distend; swell or puff out; dilate: The king cobra inflates its hood.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overdrafting — the removal of more water from ground and surface basins than is replaced by rain and melting snow.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- overflow bit — (architecture) A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
- overidentify — to identify with someone else to an excessive degree
- overstaffing — the provision of an excessive number of staff for (a factory, hotel, etc)
- pacific time — the civil time officially adopted for a country or region, usually the civil time of some specific meridian lying within the region. The standard time zones in the U.S. (Atlantic time, Eastern time, Central time, Mountain time, Pacific time, Yukon time, Alaska-Hawaii time, and Bering time) use the civil times of the 60th, 75th, 90th, 105th, 120th, 135th, 150th, and 165th meridians respectively, the difference of time between one zone and the next being exactly one hour.
- pallet knife — a small, flat utensil for picking up and handling pastry paste.
- paper profit — an unrealized profit due to the appreciation of something owned but not yet sold.
- parrot fever — psittacosis.
- parvifoliate — (of plants) having small leaves in comparison with the size of the stem