11-letter words containing d, a, f, t
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- futz around — to pass time in idleness (usually followed by around).
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- grand mufti — a Muslim religious leader.
- grand theft — stealing large amount
- grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- half-witted — feeble-minded.
- halfhearted — having or showing little enthusiasm: a halfhearted attempt to work.
- hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
- handcrafted — handicraft.
- handcrafter — One who handcrafts or engages in handcraft or handicraft.
- handfasting — Present participle of handfast.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- infeudation — the act of putting a vassal in possession of a fief
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
- inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
- infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- latifundium — a great estate.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- left-handed — having the left hand more dominant or effective than the right; preferably using the left hand: a left-handed pitcher.
- left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- light-faced — (of type) having a weight of type characterized by light thin lines
- load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
- madefaction — the process of making wet
- mailed fist — superior force, especially military force, when presented as a threat: The country showed its mailed fist in negotiations.
- mass defect — the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus differs from the sum of the masses of its constituent particles, being the mass equivalent of the energy released in the formation of the nucleus.
- misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
- multi-faced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- mutual fund — an investment company that issues shares continuously and is obligated to repurchase them from shareholders on demand.
- needlecraft — needlework.
- out of date — gone out of style or fashion; outmoded; obsolete: out-of-date fashions; out-of-date ideas.
- out of hand — the terminal, prehensile part of the upper limb in humans and other primates, consisting of the wrist, metacarpal area, fingers, and thumb.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.