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10-letter words containing f, a, l, t, e, r

  • o'flaherty — Liam [lee-uh m] /ˈli əm/ (Show IPA), 1896–1984, Irish novelist.
  • other half — the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made: a glimpse of how the other half lives.
  • perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
  • persulfate — a salt of persulfuric acid, as potassium persulfate, K 2 S 2 O 5 or K 2 S 2 O 8 .
  • platterful — a heaped plate or platter
  • pratfallen — having fallen upon one's buttocks
  • prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
  • profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
  • profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
  • quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
  • rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
  • ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
  • reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
  • refractile — refractive (def 2).
  • relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns
  • rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
  • softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
  • stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
  • starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
  • start life — If something starts life or begins life as a particular thing, it is that thing when it first starts to exist.
  • streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
  • sucralfate — a sugar-aluminum complex, C 1 2 H 5 4 Al 1 6 O 7 5 S 8 , used for the treatment of duodenal ulcer.
  • tax relief — finance: reduction
  • telferages — telpher.
  • transferal — transference; transfer.
  • trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
  • ultra-left — having extreme left-wing views
  • ultrafiche — a form of microfiche with the images greatly reduced in size, generally by a factor of 100 or more.
  • unfatherly — not fatherly; not characteristic or appropriate of a father
  • ungrateful — unappreciative; not displaying gratitude; not giving due return or recompense for benefits conferred: ungrateful heirs.
  • wanrestful — uneasy or restless
  • water flag — a European iris, Iris pseudacorus, naturalized throughout eastern North America, with blue-green leaves and violet-veined, yellow flowers and growing in moist places.
  • water flea — any of various small crustaceans that move about in the water like fleas, as those of the genus Daphnia.
  • water leaf — (in Greek architecture and sculpture) a motif of heart-shaped leaves having a conspicuous midrib.
  • waterfalls — Plural form of waterfall.
  • waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
  • welfarists — (rare, pejorative, derisive) Plural form of welfarist.
  • wolframate — tungstate.
  • wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.
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