12-letter words containing t, o, h, f
- off-the-wall — markedly unconventional; bizarre; oddball: an unpredictable, off-the-wall personality.
- offset sheet — a rubber-coated sheet in an offset press which acts as the intermediate surface to transfer the impression to the paper
- old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- 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.
- 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 a hat — as if by magic
- out of hours — Something that happens out of hours happens at a time that is not during the usual hours of business or work.
- out of humor — a comic, absurd, or incongruous quality causing amusement: the humor of a situation.
- out of phase — in an unsynchronized way
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- out of shape — person: unfit
- out of sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- out of touch — not up to date
- out of whack — to strike with a smart, resounding blow or blows.
- out-of-sight — Slang. fantastic; great; marvelous: an out-of-sight guitarist.
- outfangthief — the right of a lord to try a thief captured within his jurisdiction, regardless of where the thief is from
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- phi-function — Euler's phi-function.
- photo finish — a finish of a race in which two or more contestants are so close to the finish line that reference to a photograph of the finish is necessary to determine the winner.
- photo relief — a method of showing the configuration of the relief of an area by photographing a model of it that is illuminated by a lamp in the northwest corner
- photo-finish — If the end of a race is a photo-finish, two or more of the competitors cross the finishing line so close together that a photograph of the finish has to be examined to decide who has won.
- photo-offset — a method of printing, based on photolithography, in which the inked image is transferred from the metal plate to a rubber surface and then to the paper.
- photofission — nuclear fission induced by the absorption of a high-energy photon.
- pillow fight — a mock fight in which participants thump each other with pillows
- pitched-roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- proof sheets — trial impressions made from composed type, or print-outs (from a laser printer, etc) read for the correction of errors; proofs
- proof theory — (logic) The branch of logic describing procedures for combining logical statements to show, by a series of truth-preserving transformations, that one statement is a consequence of some other statement or group of statements.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- red goatfish — a goatfish, Mullus auratus.
- right of way — a common law or statutory right granted to a vehicle, as an airplane or boat, to proceed ahead of another.
- right-footer — (esp in Ireland) a Protestant
- run off with — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- safety touch — a two-point play
- scratchproof — resistant to scratches.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- shatterproof — designed or made to resist shattering: shatterproof glass in automobile windows.
- shift worker — a person who does shiftwork
- short shrift — a brief time for confession or absolution given to a condemned prisoner before his or her execution.
- sixth former — student: 16-18
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- slothfulness — sluggardly; indolent; lazy.
- smooth-faced — beardless; smooth-shaven.
- soft chancre — chancroid.
- soft-hearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- soft-shelled — Also, soft-shelled. having a soft, flexible, or fragile shell, as a crab that has recently molted.
- softheadedly — in a soft-headed manner
- solway firth — an arm of the Irish Sea between SW Scotland and NW England. 38 miles (61 km) long.