10-letter words containing a, f, t, e
- trafficker — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- transferal — transference; transfer.
- transferee — a person who is transferred or removed, as from one place to another.
- transferor — a person who makes a transfer, as of property.
- transfixed — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- trifurcate — to divide into three forks or branches.
- tuffaceous — a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
- tuftaffeta — a type of taffeta with a tufted pile, used esp for women's clothing in the past
- ultra-left — having extreme left-wing views
- ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
- unaffected — not affected, acted upon, or influenced; unchanged; unaltered: The laboratory clock remained accurate, unaffected by the explosion.
- unaffluent — not affluent or wealthy
- undefeated — to overcome in a contest, election, battle, etc.; prevail over; vanquish: They defeated the enemy. She defeated her brother at tennis.
- underdraft — a tendency of a rolled piece to curve downward after passing through a stand, occurring when the upper roll is faster than the lower. Compare overdraft (def 7).
- unfactored — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- unfathered — having no father; fatherless.
- unfatherly — not fatherly; not characteristic or appropriate of a father
- unfathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- unfavorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- unfeatured — not featured
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- ungrateful — unappreciative; not displaying gratitude; not giving due return or recompense for benefits conferred: ungrateful heirs.
- unifoliate — having only one leaf.
- uninflated — distended with air or gas; swollen.
- unliftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- unmanifest — Psychoanalysis. of or relating to conscious feelings, ideas, and impulses that contain repressed psychic material: the manifest content of a dream as opposed to the latent content that it conceals.
- unratified — to confirm by expressing consent, approval, or formal sanction: to ratify a constitutional amendment.
- untasteful — having, displaying, or in accordance with good taste: tasteful clothing; a tasteful room.
- valve lift — The valve lift is the distance by which the valve is raised from its seated position when it is fully opened.
- vat office — the part of HM Revenue & Customs that deals with VAT
- velvetleaf — Indian mallow.
- vociferant — vociferating; noisy.
- vociferate — say loudly
- volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
- wafer-thin — very thin: a wafer-thin slice.
- wage drift — the change in the amount by which actual earnings exceed negotiated earnings
- wanrestful — uneasy or restless
- warfighter — A soldier in combat.
- wastefully — In a wasteful manner.
- watch fire — a fire maintained during the night as a signal and for providing light and warmth for guards.
- water flag — a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.
- water flea — any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
- water leaf — (in Greek architecture and sculpture) a motif of heart-shaped leaves having a conspicuous midrib.
- water-fast — (of a color or dye) resistant to the effects caused by water; not changed or faded by the action of water.
- water-free — containing no water
- watercraft — skill in boating and water sports.
- waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.