11-letter words containing f, a, t
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- fatal error — (programming, operating system) Any error which causes abrupt termination of the program. The program may be terminated either by itself or by the operating system (a "fatal exception"). In the former instance, the program contains code which catches the error and, as a result, returns to the operating system or calls an operating system service to terminate the program.
- fatefulness — The quality of being fateful.
- fatheadedly — in a fatheaded manner
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fatiguingly — In a fatiguing manner.
- fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
- fatty tumor — lipoma.
- fatuousness — The characteristic of being fatuous.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- fault plane — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultlessly — In a faultless manner.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- feature key — (hardware) (Or "flower", "pretzel", "clover", "propeller", "beanie" (from propeller beanie), splat, "command key") The Macintosh modifier key with the four-leaf clover graphic on its keytop. The feature key is the Mac's equivalent of a control key (and so labelled on some Mac II keyboards). The proliferation of terms for this creature may illustrate one subtle peril of iconic interfaces. Macs also have an "Option" modifier key, equivalent to Alt. The cloverleaf-like symbol's oldest name is "cross of St. Hannes", but it occurs in pre-Christian Viking art as a decorative motif. In Scandinavia it marks sites of historical interest. An early Macintosh developer who happened to be Swedish introduced it to Apple. Apple documentation gives the translation "interesting feature". The symbol has a Unicode character called "PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN" (U+2318), previously known as "command key". The Swedish name of this symbol stands for the word "sev"ardhet" (interesting feature), many of which are old churches. Some Swedes report as an idiom for it the word "kyrka", cognate to English "church" and Scots-dialect "kirk" but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense.
- featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
- fecundating — Present participle of fecundate.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- felicitated — Simple past tense and past participle of felicitate.
- felicitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felicitate.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- felt marker — a felt pen with a wide nib for making identifying marks, as on clothing.
- fenestrated — having windows; windowed; characterized by windows.
- fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- ferrimagnet — (physics) Any ferrimagnetic material.
- ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
- fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
- festinately — hurried.
- festinating — hurried.
- festination — a gait marked by an involuntary hurrying in walking, observed in certain nerve diseases.