12-Letter Words Containing O

Fluorescein

Form of emitted light

Light-emitting property

Emission of light when exposed to radiation

Fluorescent

""FLUORIDATE To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.""

Process reducing tooth decay

Fluorimeter

Adjective (-ic)

FLUORINATE

""FLUORINATE FLUORINE a gaseous element, also FLUORIN""

Compound of only elements F and C

Compound of C and F atoms

Compound such as PTFE

Any of various fluorescent substances used in fluorescence microscopy to stain specimens.

See photofluorography .

Fluorometer

""Instruments an instrument for measuring the emission of radiation in the form of visible light and identifying the substance that is its source. ; fluorometric,""

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

Fluoroscope

FLUOROSCOPE An instrument for observing or exhibiting fluorescence.

""An antineoplastic agent, C 4 H 3 FN 2 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of cancers of the skin, breast, and digestive system.""

""(Individual Sports & Recreations / Swimming, Water Sports & Surfing) US and Canadian an oblong board or piece of polystyrene plastic used by swimmers in training or practice Brit word float FRANKALMOIGN (Historical Terms) English legal history a form of tenure by which religious bodies held lands, esp on condition of praying for the soul of the donor [from Anglo-French fraunke almoigne , from fraunke frank + almoign church treasury, alms chest]""

""The act of focalizing or bringing to a focus, or the state of being focalized.""

FOLKLORIST

Folksiness

Folksinging

Plural or third person singular

""Inflammation of a follicle, especially of a hair follicle.""

The act or condition of following a leader; adherence: "It was not a crisis of leadership. It was a crisis of followership" (Christian Science Monitor).

Fomentation

FOODLESS without food

Footdragger

Footfault

Footlambert

FOOTLESS without feet

Pays for fellers, those on the march

Marchers, those wielding an axe on behalf of an old Labour leader (wordplay)

Footslog

FOOTSORE having sore or tired feet

""An extensive order of rhizopods which generally have a chambered calcareous shell formed by several united zooids. Many of them have perforated walls, whence the name. Some species are covered with sand. See Rhizophoda. Rhizophoda.""

Foraminifer

Forbearance

Forbiddance

Forbidding

Assertive or vigorous quality

The quality of being forcible.

In a foreboding manner.

CASTABLE able to be cast

CHECKERS checker

Forecheck

Home wreckers in favour of finding love finally for certain in walled vineyard

They take the land back in favour of point-to-point around Cork

Came together

Met old man being entertained by Dad, bloke at the paper

Foreground

Forehanded

Foremanship

FORENSIC law pleading

Predestined

Bit of a nag and that's the whole thing summed up, so to speak (wordplay)

More than just two legs of quadruped making the whole, we're told

Forereach

Presaged

Foreshadow

Foreshorten

Foresighted.

Forespeak

""FORESTALLER One who forestalls; esp., one who forestalls the market.""

Anticipating long life, star played around

Forestation

Triangular sail

Foreswear

Forethought

Foretoken

Forgather

A furnace or hearth where metals are heated or wrought; a smithy.

It preserves official of Parisian park

Preservative for biological specimens

Gas used as preservative

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Formalness

FORMLESS lacking structure

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

FORMULARIZE To reduce to a forula; to formulate.

Formularize

Formulation

Fornication

Forthright

Adjective meaning resembling

By chance

""FOUNDATION The act of founding, fixing, establishing, or beginning to erect.""

Make a wish here at beginning of spring

Wellspring (2 words)

Chief source

Fourdrinier

Partially, incompletely

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

Fractionate

""FRACTIONATE To separate into different portions or fractions, as in the distillation of liquids.""

Frictional

Having no friction.

Frontality

Cody or Carson, say

Daniel Boone, for one

Border dweller

Crockett and Boone

Picture at beginning of book

Illustration in book of head one's cut

Illustration facing a book's title page

Frostbiting

Frostiness

Frothiness

Frozenness

Frustration

Fucoxanthin

Fulguration

In a smoky manner.

Fulmination

In a functional manner; as regards normal or appropriate activity.

""Destitute of function, or of an appropriate organ. Darwin.""

English word

Plural or third person singular

A skin condition characterized by the development of recurring boils.

Fustigation

Futurology

Predictor of what is to come

One who forecasts coming developments

Person dealing with the study or prediction for mankind during times to come

Gadzookery

Excessive flow of milk from the breasts during lactation.

""An inherited metabolic disorder characterized by the deficiency of an enzyme that is necessary for the metabolism of galactose. The disorder results in elevated levels of galactose in the blood and, if untreated, can lead to mental retardation and eye and liver abnormalities.""

""GALACTOSE A white, crystalline sugar, C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper). C6H12O6, isomeric with dextrose, obtained by the decomposition of milk sugar, and also from certain gums. When oxidized it forms mucic acid. Called also lactose (though it is not lactose proper).""

Galactoside

Gallerygoer

Resembling the domestic fowls and pheasants; of or pertaining to the Gallinae.

Instrument for measuring small electric currents

Instrument for detecting small electric currents - mangrove et al (anagram)

Man got a lever working, device in physics lab (wordplay)

""An instrument or apparatus for detecting the presence of electrical currents, especially such as are of feeble intensity.""

GAMESOME {playful=adj}

The formation or production of gametes.

Gametophore

Gametophyte

""GAMETOPHYTE In the alternation of generations in plants, that generation or phase which bears sex organs and produces gametes. In the lower plants, as the alg\'91, the gametophyte is the conspicuous part of the plant body; in mosses it is the so-called moss plant; in ferns it is reduced to a small, early perishing body; and in seed plants it is usually microscopic or rudimentary.""

Having the petals united or joined so as to form a tube or cup; monopetalous.

GANGLION a group of nerve cells

Ganglioside

Gangsterdom

The act or process of converting into gas.

""Pl. gastrocnemii (-m - ) The largest, most prominent muscle of the calf of the leg, the action of which extends the foot and bends the knee.""

Gastronomy

One who eats and drinks well

Gastroscope

Of or pertaining to gastroscopy.

Gastrotrich

""The process of invagination, in embryonic development, by which a gastrula is formed.""

Gelatinous

Gemmologist

Concerned with tracing a tree (wordplay)

Upset college again concerning family history

Tree experts (wordplay)

""GENERATION The act of generating or begetting; procreation, as of animals.""

Generosity

GENEROUS willing to give

A person of good breeding; a lady or a gentleman.

Reverential bending of knee

Knee-bending

GEOBOTANIC

Geobotanist

""The study of the chemical composition of, and of actual or possible chemical changes in, the crust of the earth.""

Of the earth.

Study or science of

In a geological manner.

The magnetism of the earth.

One skilled in geometry; a geometer; a mathematician.

GEOMETRISE

GEOMETRIZE To investigate or apprehend geometrical quantities or laws; to make geometrical constructions; to proceed in accordance with the principles of geometry.

An earth scientist

Relating to the effect of physical features on international relations

Being under high pressure within the earth.

""Any one of the sciences, such as geology or geochemistry, that deals with the earth.""

Pl. geostrategies The branch of geopolitics that deals with strategy.

""The downward bend or subsidence of the earth's crust, which allows of the gradual accumulation of sediment, and hence forms the first step in the making of a mountain range; opposed to geanticlinal. geanticlinal.""

Geosyncline

GEOTECHNIC

Geothermal

Germination

An antique cabinet (wordplay)

Senior government (wordplay)

Gerontocrat

Old Age

One who gesticulates.

Helps for autobiographers

Silent partners of a sort

Literary stand-ins

Authoring for someone else

Worth setting puzzles produced under assumed name

Like work of unacknowledged author, worth testing out

Having revolting habits means lushes need hosing to be reformed

Gillyflower

Pl. gingivectomies Surgical removal of gum tissue.

Glaciology

Geology () Translations

Of ancient Roman combat

Pleased to get one lariat designed to catch old combatant

The state of experiencing joy and pleasure.

GLAMOURIZE

Girl in Great Britain puts down craftspeople

Craftsmen with inflationary effects on their products

Art of making bottles etc

GLASSWORKER glasswork

GLAUCOUS bluish green

""Pl. glioblastomas or glioblastomata (-m -t ) A malignant tumor of the central nervous system, usually occurring in the cerebrum of adults.""

Globeflower

One gets hammered, making a noise!

Bell-like instrument

Percussion instrument with metal bars

Gloominess

GLORIOUS magnificent

Glossiness

Glossolalia

Person associated with (-ist)

Glucokinase

Glucosamine

Glucosidase

Glucuronide

Glutathione

Gluttonous

GLYCOGEN a carbohydrate