9-letter words containing a, f, t
- downdraft — a downward current, as of air: a downdraft in a mine shaft.
- draftable — Capable of being drafted.
- draftsman — draughtsman (def 1).
- draftsmen — (US) Plural form of draftsman.
- drag lift — a lift which drags skiers up to the top of the slope
- draglifts — Plural form of draglift.
- earthfall — a fall of earth or a landslide
- earthfast — relating to a method of building or to buildings that have no foundations but are supported by posts knocked into the ground
- edificant — Building; constructing.
- effectual — producing or capable of producing an intended effect; adequate.
- end float — End float is the amount by which a shaft can move lengthwise.
- engrafted — Simple past tense and past participle of engraft.
- estafette — a military courier
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- exfoliate — (of a material) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers.
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- fabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of fabulate.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- fabulists — Plural form of fabulist.
- face time — time spent speaking or meeting with one or more people face to face, in contrast to phone conversations or other means of communication: Is he available for a couple of hours of face time?
- face-lift — Also, face lifting, facelifting. plastic surgery on the face for elevating sagging tissues and eliminating wrinkles and other signs of age; rhytidectomy.
- face-time — Face-time is time that you spend talking directly to someone, rather than talking by phone or email.
- facecloth — washcloth.
- facefirst — Violently forward, so as to strike something with one's face.
- facelifts — Plural form of facelift.
- faceplant — (informal) The act of landing face first, as a result of an accident or error.
- faceplate — (on a lathe) a perforated plate, mounted on the live spindle, to which the work is attached.
- faceprint — a digitally recorded representation of a person's face that can be used for security purposes because it is as individual as a fingerprint
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- facialist — a person who has special training in administering facials and other skin treatments for the face.
- facticity — the condition or quality of being a fact; factuality.
- factional — of a faction or factions.
- factitive — noting or pertaining to verbs that express the idea of making or rendering in a certain way and that take a direct object and an additional word or group of words indicating the result of the process, as made in They made him king.
- factivity — (of a verb, adjective, or noun phrase) presupposing the truth of an embedded sentence that serves as complement, as realize in I didn't realize that he had left, which presupposes that it is true that he had left.
- factoidal — of or resembling a factoid; (of a piece of writing) comprising facts and factoids
- factor in — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factor ix — a blood constituent necessary for clotting, the absence of which is characterized by a hemophilialike condition.
- factorage — the action or business of a factor.
- factorial — Mathematics. the product of a given positive integer multiplied by all lesser positive integers: The quantity four factorial (4!) = 4 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 1 = 24. Symbol: n!, where n is the given integer.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- factorize — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- factotums — (obsolete) Plural form of factotum.
- factsheet — Alternative spelling of fact sheet.
- factually — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faculties — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.
- faculty's — an ability, natural or acquired, for a particular kind of action: a faculty for making friends easily.