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

  • folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
  • 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.
  • foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
  • forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • forficulate — resembling scissors
  • 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.
  • forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
  • fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
  • fractionlet — a small piece
  • fractiously — In a fractious manner.
  • fragilities — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
  • franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
  • frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
  • fratricidal — a person who kills his or her brother.
  • fritillaria — any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria, comprising bulbous herbs having drooping, bell-shaped flowers.
  • fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
  • fruit salts — salts of citric acid, used to relieve bloating and neutralize stomach acidity. Also used in cooking.
  • fruit stall — a market stall that sells a variety of edible fruits
  • ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
  • fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
  • fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
  • fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
  • fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • funambulist — a tightrope walker.
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • fustilirian — a person who uses a cudgel rather than a sword; hence, a lowly person or a commoner (from Henry IV by William Shakespeare)
  • get a life! — (abuse)   Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
  • 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.
  • gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
  • half sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-sister — sister (def 2).
  • half-witted — feeble-minded.
  • halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
  • host family — family one lodges with
  • idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
  • impactfully — In an impactful fashion.
  • ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infantilism — the persistence in an adult of markedly childish anatomical, physiological, or psychological characteristics.
  • infantilist — (sexuality) One who is subject to infantilism.
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