10-letter words containing f, a, t, e, l
- offsetable — able to balance, counteract, or compensate for something else
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- 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.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- page fault — (memory management) In a paged virtual memory system, an access to a page (block) of memory that is not currently mapped to physical memory. When a page fault occurs the operating system either fetches the page in from secondary storage (usually disk) if the access was legitimate or otherwise reports the access as illegal.
- 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 .
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- 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.
- satchelful — the amount a satchel will hold
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- spiflicate — to destroy; annihilate
- splay-feet — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- 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
- stage left — Stage left is the left side of the stage for an actor who is standing facing the audience.
- stall-feed — to keep and feed (an animal) in a stall.
- 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.
- stealthful — secret, clandestine, or surreptitious procedure.
- stepfamily — a family composed of a parent, a stepparent, and a child or children by a previous marriage.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- 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.
- sweet flag — an aroid marsh plant, Acorus calamus, having swordlike leaves, small greenish flowers, and aromatic roots
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- tax relief — finance: reduction
- tea family — the plant family Theaceae, characterized by shrubs and trees having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers, and capsular, berrylike, or dry fruit, and including the camellia, franklinia, and tea.
- telferages — telpher.
- tolnaftate — an antifungal substance, C 19 H 17 NOS, used topically in the treatment of certain superficial fungal skin infections, as athlete's foot.
- 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.
- unaffluent — not affluent or wealthy
- unfatherly — not fatherly; not characteristic or appropriate of a father
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.