12-letter words containing u, f, o, l
- nonformulary — Not formulary.
- nonfrivolous — not frivolous
- noninfluence — a lack of influence, failure to influence
- nonqualified — unqualified (def 1).
- norfullerene — (chemistry) Any of various compounds formally derived from a fullerene by the removal of one or more carbon atoms, and the optional addition of several hydrogen atoms.
- normal fault — gravity fault.
- offputtingly — In an offputting manner.
- old faithful — one of the best known geysers of Yellowstone National Park.
- on all fours — all four limbs or extremities; the four legs or feet of an animal or both arms and both legs or both hands and both feet of a person: The cat rolled off the ledge but landed on all fours.
- out of place — a particular portion of space, whether of definite or indefinite extent.
- out of plumb — not vertical
- 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 style — no longer fashionable
- 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.
- outside-left — a footballer who plays on the outside left wing of the field
- over-helpful — giving or rendering aid or assistance; of service: Your comments were very helpful.
- over-qualify — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- overflourish — to flourish excessively
- overfullness — The state of being excessively or abnormally full.
- pasqueflower — an Old World plant, Anemone pulsatilla, of the buttercup family, having purple, crocuslike flowers blooming about Easter.
- patent flour — a fine grade of flour, consisting chiefly of the inner part of the endosperm.
- perfidiously — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- petaliferous — bearing or having petals.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- potato flour — a type of flour made from potatoes
- pouilly-fume — a dry, white wine from the Loire Valley of France.
- poultry farm — place where fowl are bred
- powerfulness — having or exerting great power or force.
- preformulate — to describe an active pharmaceutical ingredient chemically
- pulp fiction — fiction dealing with lurid or sensational subjects, often printed on rough, low-quality paper manufactured from wood pulp.
- pulvilliform — resembling a pulvillus
- purposefully — having a purpose.
- put flesh on — If you put flesh on something, you add details and more information to it.
- pyrosulfuric — of or derived from pyrosulfuric acid; disulfuric.
- qualificator — (in an ecclesiastical court) an officer charged with examining cases and preparing them for trial.
- refuse lorry — a lorry used to collect and dispose of rubbish and waste from homes, etc
- roman-fleuve — saga (def 3).
- run afoul of — fall foul / afoul of, to collide with, as ships. to come into conflict with; quarrel. to make an attack; assault.
- salutiferous — salutary.
- saronic gulf — an inlet of the Aegean, on the SE coast of Greece, between Attica and the Peloponnesus. 50 miles (80 km) long; 30 miles (48 km) wide.
- seleniferous — containing or yielding selenium.
- self-focused — a central point, as of attraction, attention, or activity: The need to prevent a nuclear war became the focus of all diplomatic efforts.
- 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-tuition — the charge or fee for instruction, as at a private school or a college or university: The college will raise its tuition again next year.
- self-wrought — Archaic except in some senses. a simple past tense and past participle of work.
- serous fluid — any of various clear, watery fluids in the body.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- siliciferous — containing, combined with, or producing silica.