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.