These are the meanings of the letters OOALFFOT when you unscramble them.
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Afoot (adv.)
Fig.: In motion; in action; astir; in progress.
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Afoot (adv.)
On foot.
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Aloft (adv.)
In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.
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Aloft (adv.)
On high; in the air; high above the ground.
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Aloft (prep.)
Above; on top of.
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Aloof (adv.)
At or from a distance, but within view, or at a small distance; apart; away.
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Aloof (adv.)
Without sympathy; unfavorably.
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Aloof (n.)
Same as Alewife.
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Aloof (prep.)
Away from; clear from.
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Float (n.)
To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
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Float (n.)
To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
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Float (v. i.)
A coal cart.
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Float (v. i.)
A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
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Float (v. i.)
A float board. See Float board (below).
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Float (v. i.)
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
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Float (v. i.)
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
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Float (v. i.)
A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
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Float (v. i.)
A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
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Float (v. i.)
Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
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Float (v. i.)
Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
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Float (v. i.)
The act of flowing; flux; flow.
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Float (v. i.)
The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
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Float (v. i.)
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
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Float (v. i.)
The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
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Float (v. i.)
The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
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Float (v. t.)
To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
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Float (v. t.)
To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
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Float (v. t.)
To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
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Float (v. t.)
To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
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Flota (n.)
A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
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loofa (unknown)
Sorry. I don't have the meaning of this word.
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Offal (n.)
A dead body; carrion.
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Offal (n.)
That which is thrown away as worthless or unfit for use; refuse; rubbish.
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Offal (n.)
The rejected or waste parts of a butchered animal.