11-letter words containing a, i, r, t, f
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- free-to-air — Free-to-air television programmes and channels do not require a subscription or payment.
- freemartins — Plural form of freemartin.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- fritillaria — any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria, comprising bulbous herbs having drooping, bell-shaped flowers.
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- 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
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- 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.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- granitiform — resembling granite
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- i formation — an offensive alignment in which the backs are positioned in line directly behind the quarterback.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- imperforate — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- infantryman — a soldier of the infantry.
- infantrymen — Plural form of infantryman.
- infarctions — Plural form of infarction.
- inferential — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- infiltrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infiltrate.
- infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.