11-letter words containing a, i, r, t, f
- surfcasting — the act, technique, or sport of fishing by casting from the shoreline into the sea, usually using heavy-duty tackle.
- t formation — an offensive formation in which the quarterback lines up directly behind the center with the fullback about three yards behind the quarterback and the halfbacks on opposite sides of and about one yard from the fullback.
- tailleferre — Germaine, 1892–1983, French composer.
- take fright — be scared off
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tariff line — an item listed in a country's tariff schedule
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
- the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
- throw a fit — a sudden, acute attack or manifestation of a disease, especially one marked by convulsions or unconsciousness: a fit of epilepsy.
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- tit for tat — with an equivalent given in retaliation, as a blow for a blow, repartee, etc.: He answered their insults tit for tat.
- tit-for-tat — A tit-for-tat action is one where someone takes revenge on another person for what they have done by doing something similar to them.
- tooth fairy — a fairy credited with leaving a child money or a small gift in exchange for a baby tooth that has fallen out and been placed under the child's pillow at night.
- traffic cop — a police officer who directs the flow of traffic, usually at an intersection.
- traffic jam — jam1 (def 16).
- trafficable — that can be traveled upon: a trafficable road.
- trafficator — a directional signal on a vehicle for indicating which way it is going to turn.
- trafficking — the movement of vehicles, ships, persons, etc., in an area, along a street, through an air lane, over a water route, etc.: the heavy traffic on Main Street.
- tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
- train ferry — a ship designed to carry railway vehicles
- transferrin — a plasma glycoprotein that transports dietary iron to the liver, spleen, and bone marrow.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- transfinite — going beyond or surpassing the finite.
- transfixing — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transfixion — to make or hold motionless with amazement, awe, terror, etc.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
- travel film — a filmed documentary showing travel in a certain country or region
- trifluralin — a selective herbicide, C 13 H 16 F 3 N 3 O 4 , used to control weeds.
- tympaniform — resembling or having the form of a drum or drum head
- ultrafilter — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- unfaltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- ungratified — 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.
- unit factor — a gene; a sequence of nucleotides that functions as the hereditary unit for a single character.
- vanity fair — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) a fair that goes on perpetually in the town of Vanity and symbolizes worldly ostentation and frivolity.
- ventral fin — pelvic fin.
- view factor — The view factor is the degree to which heat carried by radiation can be passed between two surfaces.
- vinificator — a condenser for alcohol vapors escaping from fermenting wine.
- vital force — the force that animates and perpetuates living beings and organisms.
- wait for it — You say 'wait for it' to stop someone from doing something too soon because you have not yet given them the command to do it.
- war footing — the condition or status of a military force or other organization when operating under a state of war or as if a state of war existed.
- warfighters — Plural form of warfighter.
- warfighting — (military) The fighting of a war.
- waterfinder — a dowser; water witch.
- weatherfish — any of several loaches of the genus Misgurnus, especially the European M. fossilis, which shows increased activity in response to changes in barometric pressure.
- welfaristic — characterized by welfarism
- west africa — most westerly part of Africa
- white dwarf — a star, approximately the size of the earth, that has undergone gravitational collapse and is in the final stage of evolution for low-mass stars, beginning hot and white and ending cold and dark (black dwarf)