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11-letter words containing a, t, f, i

  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • fustigating — Present participle of fustigate.
  • fustigation — A beating with a club.
  • 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 fitting — the work or business of a gas fitter.
  • gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
  • get a life! — (abuse)   Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
  • gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
  • giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • 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-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
  • handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
  • handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
  • hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
  • harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
  • hatchetfish — any deep-sea fishes of the genera Argyropelicus, Sternoptyx, and related genera, of tropical and temperate waters, having a silvery, hatchet-shaped body.
  • have it off — to have sexual intercourse
  • hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
  • host family — family one lodges with
  • 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
  • if anything — on the contrary
  • if you want — as you please
  • impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
  • imperforate — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
  • in fat city — very rich
  • in the face — head on, directly
  • in-stead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
  • ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infangthief — (in Old English law) the right of a lord of the manor to have jurisdiction over a thief caught within the bounds of his property
  • infant-hood — a child during the earliest period of its life, especially before he or she can walk; baby.
  • infanticide — the act of killing an infant.
  • infantilism — the persistence in an adult of markedly childish anatomical, physiological, or psychological characteristics.
  • infantilist — (sexuality) One who is subject to infantilism.
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