11-letter words containing t, i, f, o
- single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
- soft drinks — A soft drink is a cold, nonalcoholic drink such as lemonade or fruit juice, or a carbonated drink.
- soft option — If you take the soft option, you do the thing that is easiest or least likely to cause trouble in a particular situation.
- soft pencil — a type of pencil that contains a thicker, oilier and darker form of graphite
- soft skills — emotional intelligence
- soft tissue — the soft parts of the human body as distinct from bone and cartilage
- 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.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- strife-torn — divided by violent conflict or dissent
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- 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.
- 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
- sword fight — duel with long-bladed weapons
- t formation — an offensive formation in which the quarterback lines up directly behind the center with the fullback about three yards behind the quarterback and the halfbacks on opposite sides of and about one yard from the fullback.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- take office — come to power
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- telling-off — If you give someone a telling-off, you tell them that you are very angry with them about something they have done.
- the forties — the numbers 40–49 in a particular century, esp the 20th century
- the inferno — hell; the infernal region
- the like of — any person or thing like
- the offside — the side of a vehicle nearest the centre of the road (in Britain, the right side)
- thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
- third floor — the storey of a building immediately above the second and three floors up from the ground
- third force — a political faction or party, etc., occupying an intermediate position between two others representing opposite extremes.
- thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
- thrift shop — a retail store that sells secondhand goods at reduced prices.
- throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
- thuriferous — producing frankincense
- tibiofibula — the bone of a frog's lower leg
- ticking off — If you give someone a ticking off, you speak angrily to them because they have done something wrong.
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- timber wolf — the gray wolf, Canis lupus, sometimes designated as the subspecies C. lupus occidentalis: formerly common in northern North America but now greatly reduced in number and rare in the conterminous U.S.
- time of day — a definite time as shown by a timepiece; the hour: Can you tell me the time of day?
- tischendorf — Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin von [loh-buh-gawt free-drikh kawn-stahn-teen fuh n] /ˈloʊ bəˌgɔt ˈfri drɪx ˌkɔn stɑnˈtin fən/ (Show IPA), 1815–74, German Biblical critic.