11-letter words containing a, f, t
- return half — the return part of a two-way ticket
- riefenstahl — Leni [ley-nee] /ˈleɪ ni/ (Show IPA), 1902–2003, German film director.
- rifacimento — a recast or adaptation, as of a literary or musical work.
- rift valley — graben.
- risk factor — a condition, behavior, or other factor that increases risk: Smoking is a major risk factor for cancer; depression as a risk factor in suicide.
- road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
- room father — a male volunteer, often the father of a student, who assists an elementary-school teacher, as by working with students who need extra help.
- rough draft — writing: unfinished version
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- safari suit — a suit consisting of a bush jacket and matching trousers.
- safety belt — seat belt.
- safety bolt — a bolt or lock on a door or gate that cannot be moved from the outside
- safety cage — A safety cage is a rigid part of the body of a vehicle that surrounds the passenger compartment and protects passengers during a crash.
- safety date — someone who accompanies a single person to a function to give the impression that he or she is in a personal relationship
- safety film — Photography. a film having a nonflammable base of triacetate cellulose.
- safety fuse — a slow-burning fuse for igniting detonators from a distance
- safety fuze — a long tube attached to a detonator or percussion cap and filled with a powder that burns slowly when ignited.
- safety hook — a hook that can be transformed into an eye by locking a hinged piece in place.
- safety lamp — a miner's lamp in which the flame is protected by wire gauze to prevent the immediate ignition of explosive gases.
- safety lock — a lock designed to prevent picking.
- safety zone — A safety zone is a place in the middle of a road crossing where you can wait before you cross the other half of the road.
- saint felix — Saint, died a.d. 530, pope 526–530.
- san stefano — the former name of Yesilkoy, a town in Turkey, near Istanbul: treaty between Russia and Turkey 1878.
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- satisfiable — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- satisficing — the act of satisficing
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
- sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
- sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
- self-acting — acting by itself; automatic.
- self-hating — harbouring feelings of self-hatred
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-safety — the state of being safe; freedom from the occurrence or risk of injury, danger, or loss.
- self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shaft house — a structure housing machinery and other equipment at the top of a mine shaft.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- significant — important; of consequence.
- significate — something signified