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11-letter words containing f, a, l, o, t

  • focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
  • focal ratio — f-number.
  • folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
  • folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
  • fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
  • foot patrol — an assigned or habitual round or route, as of a police officer or sentry
  • foot-candle — a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbreviation: FC.
  • footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
  • footballist — Lb dated A football player.
  • forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
  • forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
  • forestalled — Simple past tense and past participle of forestall.
  • forestaller — A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices.
  • forestlands — Plural form of forestland.
  • foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
  • forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • forficulate — resembling scissors
  • forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
  • formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
  • formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
  • formational — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • formulating — Present participle of formulate.
  • formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
  • formulators — Plural form of formulator.
  • forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
  • fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
  • fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
  • foul matter — Printing. materials, as manuscript, galleys, or proofs, that have been superseded by revised proofs or galleys or by the bound book, and have been returned to the publisher by the printer.
  • fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
  • fractionlet — a small piece
  • fractiously — In a fractious manner.
  • front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
  • front royal — a town in N Virginia.
  • frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
  • fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
  • fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • 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.
  • half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
  • halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
  • halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
  • 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.
  • holy father — a title of the pope.
  • host family — family one lodges with
  • hotel staff — employees of a hotel
  • infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
  • informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
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