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11-letter words containing a, f, t

  • frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
  • fructuation — the process of producing fruit
  • fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
  • fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
  • fruit salts — salts of citric acid, used to relieve bloating and neutralize stomach acidity. Also used in cooking.
  • fruit stall — a market stall that sells a variety of edible fruits
  • fruit sugar — fructose.
  • fruitarians — Plural form of fruitarian.
  • frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
  • frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
  • frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
  • ftp archive — archive site
  • ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
  • fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
  • fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
  • fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
  • fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
  • fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
  • funambulist — a tightrope walker.
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
  • functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
  • fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • fungistatic — (of a substance or preparation) inhibiting the growth of a fungus.
  • fungus gnat — any of several mosquitolike insects of the family Mycetophilidae, the larvae of which feed on fungi or decaying vegetation.
  • furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
  • furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
  • fustigation — A beating with a club.
  • fustilirian — a person who uses a cudgel rather than a sword; hence, a lowly person or a commoner (from Henry IV by William Shakespeare)
  • futurebasic — (language)   A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
  • futz around — to pass time in idleness (usually followed by around).
  • gaffer tape — strong adhesive tape used in electrical repairs
  • garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
  • gas fitting — the work or business of a gas fitter.
  • gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
  • gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
  • get a life! — (abuse)   Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
  • gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
  • grand theft — stealing large amount
  • grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
  • granitiform — resembling granite
  • granny flat — a self-contained living area within a single-family home, as for an aging parent.
  • grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
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