9-letter words containing f, a, i, t, o
- floptical — Denoting or relating to a type of floppy-disk drive using a laser to position the read-write head.
- floriated — made of or decorated with floral ornamentation: floriated design; floriated china.
- flotation — an act or state of floating.
- flotillas — Plural form of flotilla.
- foederati — Plural form of foederatus.
- fogramity — a fogey or antiquated thing
- foliation — the act or process of putting forth leaves.
- foliature — a cluster of leaves; foliage.
- foliolate — pertaining to or consisting of leaflets (often used in combination, as bifoliolate).
- foot rail — a stretcher connecting the legs of a piece of furniture, as a chair or table, upon which the feet may be rested.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- forestair — an external staircase
- forestial — Of, like or having to do with a forest.
- forfaiter — a person or company engaging in forfaiting
- forficate — deeply forked, as the tail of a bird.
- forjaskit — exhausted
- formalist — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formality — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formating — Misspelling of formatting.
- formation — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- formative — giving form or shape; forming; shaping; fashioning; molding: a formative process in manufacturing.
- formicant — (medicine,obsolete) Of the pulse: weak and rapid.
- formicate — To move like ants.
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- forsythia — a shrub belonging to the genus Forsythia, of the olive family, native to China and southeastern Europe, species of which are cultivated for their showy yellow flowers, which blossom on the bare branches in early spring.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- fortilage — (obsolete) A little fort; a blockhouse.
- fortran i — An early version of Fortran designed by John Backus at IBM for the IBM 704. The design was begun in 1954 and a compiler released in April 1957.
- fountains — Plural form of fountain.
- fractions — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fractious — refractory or unruly: a fractious animal that would not submit to the harness.
- frication — an audible, constrained rush of air accompanying and characteristic of fricatives.
- frigatoon — a Venetian sailing ship with a square stern
- froissart — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), 1333?–c1400, French chronicler.
- frontalis — A muscle of the head, sometimes considered to be part of the occipitofrontalis muscle.
- fumigator — a person or thing that fumigates.
- furcation — forked; branching.
- inflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- informant — a person who informs or gives information; informer.
- infractor — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- isografts — Plural form of isograft.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- loanshift — change or extension of the meaning of a word through the influence of a foreign word, as in the application in English of the meaning “profession” to the word calling through the influence of Latin vocātio.
- manifesto — a public declaration of intentions, opinions, objectives, or motives, as one issued by a government, sovereign, or organization.
- nontariff — Not a tariff.
- officiant — a person who officiates at a religious service or ceremony.
- officiate — to perform the office of a member of the clergy, as at a divine service.
- olfactics — The study of smells and how they are perceived.
- olfaction — the act of smelling.