11-letter words containing a, t, f, r
- stitchcraft — needlework or embroidery
- strand wolf — brown hyena.
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- stream feed — (on a photocopier, printer) a continuous supply of paper
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
- superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
- supersafety — the state of being supersafe
- 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
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- 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
- telefeature — a major dramatic television film, usually of a length comparable to a theatrical feature film.
- term of art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
- texas fever — babesiosis of cattle.
- the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
- the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
- 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.
- to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
- 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.
- tort-feasor — a person who commits a tort.
- tractorfeed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- 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
- transferase — any of the class of enzymes, as the transaminases that catalyze the transfer of an organic group from one compound to another.
- transferral — transference; transfer.
- transferred — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- 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.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
- transfusion — the act or process of transfusing.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.