12-letter words containing t, r, o, u, f
- 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 order — an authoritative direction or instruction; command; mandate.
- out of print — of, for, or comprising newspapers and magazines: print media.
- out of reach — beyond arm's length
- out of round — not having perfect roundness
- out of sorts — a particular kind, species, variety, class, or group, distinguished by a common character or nature: to develop a new sort of painting; nice people, of course, but not really our sort.
- out-of-court — conducted or agreed upon between contending parties without court decision: an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit.
- out-of-doors — Also, out-of-door. outdoor.
- out-of-print — being no longer published; no longer printed or reprinted: a bookstore specializing in out-of-print books.
- out-of-round — not perfectly round.
- outer office — the reception area of an office, outside of the main working area
- outperformed — Simple past tense and past participle of outperform.
- outperformer — One who outperforms.
- over-fraught — Archaic. filled or laden (with): ships fraught with precious wares.
- over-stuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- overfatigued — excessively fatigued
- passionfruit — any edible fruit of a passionflower, as the maypop.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- perfusionist — a medical technician or nurse who monitors and operates equipment that oxygenates the blood, as during open-heart surgery
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- postfracture — taking place after a fracture
- potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- purification — to make pure; free from anything that debases, pollutes, adulterates, or contaminates: to purify metals.
- put down for — If you put someone down for something, you write down their name and the fact that they are going to do, give, or buy that thing.
- putrefaction — the act or process of putrefying; the anaerobic decomposition of organic matter by bacteria and fungi that results in obnoxiously odorous products; rotting.
- pyritiferous — having or producing pyrites
- qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
- recomforture — consolation; comfort
- refoundation — an act of refounding
- rotator cuff — a bandlike structure encircling and supporting the shoulder joint, formed by four muscles attached to and merging with the joint capsule.
- 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.
- rustproofing — the process of making metal rustproof.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- self-support — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- self-torture — the act of inflicting excruciating pain, as punishment or revenge, as a means of getting a confession or information, or for sheer cruelty.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- send out for — If you send out for food, for example pizzas or sandwiches, you phone and ask for it to be delivered to you.
- seventy-four — a cardinal number, 70 plus 4.
- sixty-fourmo — a book size (about 2 × 3 inches; 5 × 7 cm) determined by printing on sheets folded to form 64 leaves or 128 pages.
- sixty-fourth — next after the sixty-third; being the ordinal number for 64.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- sought after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- sought-after — that is in demand; desirable: a sought-after speaker.
- south africa — Republic of, a country in S Africa; member of the Commonwealth of Nations until 1961. 472,000 sq. mi. (1,222,480 sq. km). Capitals: Pretoria and Cape Town.
- stand up for — (of a person) to be in an upright position on the feet.
- stanniferous — containing tin; tin-bearing
- stelliferous — having or abounding with stars.