11-letter words containing u, f, o
- soft tissue — the soft parts of the human body as distinct from bone and cartilage
- somniferous — bringing or inducing sleep, as drugs or influences.
- sorrowfully — full of or feeling sorrow; grieved; sad.
- sound shift — a gradual alteration or series of alterations in the pronunciation of a set of sounds, esp of vowels
- spiniferous — (esp of plants) bearing spines or thorns
- spiriferous — having a spire or spiral parts.
- spore fruit — a spore-bearing structure, as an ascoscarp; sporocarp.
- sporiferous — bearing spores.
- square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
- squeeze off — If you squeeze off a shot, you fire a bullet from a gun.
- stipuliform — shaped like a stipule.
- stone fruit — a fruit with a stone or hard endocarp, as a peach or plum; drupe.
- studio flat — a flat with one main room
- stuffed toy — A stuffed toy is the same as a stuffed animal.
- 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.
- sucket fork — a utensil for sweetmeats of the 16th, 17th, and early 18th centuries, having fork tines at one end and a spoon bowl at the other end of a common stem.
- suffer from — be ill with
- 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.
- sulfo group — the univalent group SO 3 H–, derived from sulfuric acid.
- sulfonamide — sulfa drug.
- 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.
- superfluous — being more than is sufficient or required; excessive.
- superprofit — above-average profits gained through enterprise
- sure-footed — not likely to stumble, slip, or fall.
- surf scoter — a large, North American scoter, Melanitta perspicillata, the adult male of which is black with two white patches on the head.
- surgeonfish — any tropical, coral-reef fish of the family Acanthuridae, with one or more sharp spines near the base of the tail fin.
- take out of — to get into one's hold or possession by voluntary action: to take a cigarette out of a box; to take a pen and begin to write.
- talk out of — dissuade
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
- theftuously — in a theftuous or thievish manner
- thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
- thirty-four — a cardinal number, 30 plus 4.
- thuriferous — producing frankincense
- tibiofibula — the bone of a frog's lower leg
- to the full — completely filled; containing all that can be held; filled to utmost capacity: a full cup.
- tout a fait — entirely; completely.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- trough roof — M roof.
- true fresco — fresco (def 1).
- true-fresco — fresco (def 1).
- try out for — If you try out for a sports team or an acting role, you compete or you perform a test in an attempt to be chosen.
- tubiflorous — tubuliflorous.
- tug-of-love — Journalists sometimes use tug-of-love to refer to a situation in which the parents of a child are divorced and one of the parents tries to get the child from the other, for example by taking him or her illegally.
- tumefaction — an act of making or becoming swollen or tumid.
- tuning fork — a steel instrument consisting of a stem with two prongs, producing a musical tone of definite, constant pitch when struck, and serving as a standard for tuning musical instruments, making acoustical experiments, and the like.