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

  • featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
  • felicitated — Simple past tense and past participle of felicitate.
  • felicitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felicitate.
  • felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
  • festinately — hurried.
  • feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
  • feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
  • fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
  • field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
  • filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file attach — [FidoNet] 1. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another. 2. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer.
  • filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
  • filter lane — a lane governed by a filter at a traffic light, from which traffic can turn left or right while other traffic is held up by a red light
  • fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
  • fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
  • fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
  • firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
  • fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
  • flake white — lead white.
  • flat sennit — a rope made of three or more yarns or strands plaited together.
  • flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
  • flea-bitten — bitten by a flea or fleas.
  • flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
  • flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
  • flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
  • flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
  • fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
  • fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
  • fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
  • fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
  • fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
  • folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
  • foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
  • forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • forficulate — resembling scissors
  • formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
  • fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
  • fractionlet — a small piece
  • fragilities — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • half sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
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