11-letter words containing a, f, t
- nonaffluent — not affluent or rich
- nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- not hear of — to forbid or refuse to consider
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
- oceanfronts — Plural form of oceanfront.
- octal forty — (jargon) Jargon for "I'm drawing a blank.", I can't work it out.
- of all time — If you say that someone or something is, for example, the best writer of all time, or the most successful film of all time, you mean that they are the best or most successful that there has ever been.
- of that ilk — of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named
- off the air — a mixture of nitrogen, oxygen, and minute amounts of other gases that surrounds the earth and forms its atmosphere.
- off the bat — straight away, from the very start
- off the map — no longer important or in existence (esp in the phrase wipe off the map)
- officiating — Present participle of officiate Serving in an official capacity or serving as an official at a contest.
- officiation — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
- olfactology — the medical science which studies the sense of smell
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- olfactorily — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of gear — out of order; not functioning properly
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- out-of-date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- overfatigue — excessive tiredness from which recuperation is difficult.
- overfraught — too fraught
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- p.p. factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- pacificator — to pacify.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- perfect gas — ideal gas.
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst