7-letter words containing t, o, f, i
- hot fix — (storage) Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their network file server operating system, Novell NetWare, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and bad block re-mapping.
- hotwife — (slang) A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval.
- infobot — (chat) A bot that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system. Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries. Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
can someone tell me what: $num9 = substr($number,9,1); means eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr". just tell me Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go look it up in the dictionary"?! eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell you. read the documentation. eesh -- if you haven't man pages or perldoc, you can read them on the 'net. purl, perlfunc? well, perlfunc is Perl builtin functions, at man perlfunc or http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/. - introfy — to improve the ability of (a sanitary towel, nappy, etc) to absorb liquid
- jetfoil — a passenger-carrying, jet-propelled hydrofoil, often having a control and stabilization system like that of an aircraft.
- kit fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- kit-fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- liftboy — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- liftoff — Aeronautics, Rocketry. the action of an aircraft in becoming airborne or of a rocket in rising from its launching site under its own power. the instant when such action occurs.
- loftier — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- loftily — extending high in the air; of imposing height; towering: lofty mountains.
- lofting — a room, storage area, or the like within a sloping roof; attic; garret.
- midfoot — In the middle of one's foot; between the heel and the toes.
- mitford — Mary Russell, 1787–1855, English novelist, poet, playwright, and essayist.
- mortify — to humiliate or shame, as by injury to one's pride or self-respect.
- motific — Producing motion.
- octofid — split into eight sections
- offsite — Away from a main location; in a place not owned by a particular organisation.
- ooftish — any kind of money or cash
- outfind — to find out or discover
- outfire — (Sussex) A visit by one bonfire society to join in with the celebrations of another.
- outfish — to catch more fish than
- outfits — Plural form of outfit.
- outlift — To lift more weight of something than someone else.
- overfit — too fit
- piefort — piedfort.
- pontiff — any pontifex.
- positif — (on older organs) a manual controlling soft stops
- postfix — to affix at the end of something; append; suffix.
- rotifer — any microscopic animal of the phylum (or class) Rotifera, found in fresh and salt waters, having one or more rings of cilia on the anterior end.
- sofrito — soffritto.
- softish — somewhat or relatively soft.
- sportif — sporty
- texinfo — A GNU documentation system that uses a single source file to produce both on-line information and printed output. You can read the on-line information, known as an "Info file", with an Info documentation-reading program. By convention, Texinfo source file names end with a ".texi" or ".texinfo" extension. You can write and format Texinfo files into Info files within GNU Emacs, and read them using the Emacs Info reader. If you do not have Emacs, you can format Texinfo files into Info files using "makeinfo" and read them using "info". TeX is used to typeset Texinfo files for printing. Texinfo is available from your nearest GNU archive site.
- tie off — to make (a rope or line) fast
- tinfoil — tin, or an alloy of tin and lead, in the form of a thin sheet, much used as a wrapping for drugs, foods, tobacco, etc.
- tip off — a small present of money given directly to someone for performing a service or menial task; gratuity: He gave the waiter a dollar as a tip.
- tip-off — the act of tipping off.
- toffish — belonging to or characteristic of the upper class
- tofutti — the trade name for any of a variety of nondairy, soya-based food products, esp frozen desserts
- toilful — characterized by or involving toil; laborious; toilsome.
- torrify — to subject to fire or intense heat; parch, roast, or scorch.
- trefoil — any of numerous plants belonging to the genus Trifolium, of the legume family, having usually digitate leaves of three leaflets and reddish, purple, yellow, or white flower heads, comprising the common clovers.
- trifold — triple; threefold.
- triform — formed of three parts; in three divisions.
- witloof — endive (def 2).