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14-letter words containing f, a, t

  • artificial eye — a manufactured eye of glass, plastic, or other material, usually hemispherical or cup-shaped, worn cosmetically over a blind eye or in the socket of a lost eye and sometimes attached to muscles to provide movement.
  • artificialized — Simple past tense and past participle of artificialize.
  • artificialness — the condition of being non-natural, unnatural or spurious
  • artisoft, inc. — (company, networking)   A company, known for the LANtastic range of networking products. Originally providers of proprietary, peer-to-peer network hardware and software for small installations, Artisoft now also sells Ethernet and Novell-compatible hardware and software. Telephone: +1 (800) 809 1257. Address: Tucson, Arizona, USA; Phoenix, Arizona, USA.
  • as a matter of — If you are going to do something as a matter of urgency or priority, you are going to do it as soon as possible, because it is important.
  • assert oneself — to insist on one's rights, or on being recognized
  • at first blush — when first seen; as a first impression
  • at first sight — If you say that something seems to have certain characteristics at first sight, you mean that it appears to have the features you describe when you first see it but later it is found to be different.
  • at full length — stretched out; completely extended
  • at knife-point — under threat of being stabbed
  • at the cost of — at the expense of losing
  • at the hand of — through the action of
  • athlete's foot — Athlete's foot is a fungal infection in which the skin between the toes becomes cracked or peels off.
  • atomic warfare — war in which nuclear weapons are used
  • atrial flutter — irregular heart rhythm
  • authority file — a file, either on cards or in machine-readable format, in which decisions involving bibliographic records, particularly for form of entry, are recorded to establish a precedent or rule for subsequent decisions and to provide for consistency of entries.
  • autoconfiscate — (software, jargon)   A term coined by Noah Friedman meaning to set up or modify a source-code distribution so that it configures and builds using the GNU project's autoconf/automake/libtools suite.
  • back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • balsam of tolu — tolu
  • bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • barium sulfate — an odorless, tasteless, white powder, BaSO4, insoluble in water: it is used as a paint pigment, as a filler for paper, textiles , etc., and as an opaque substance that is ingested to aid in making diagnostic X-rays of the stomach and intestine
  • barrel shifter — (hardware)   A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • battle fatigue — Battle fatigue is a mental condition of anxiety and depression caused by the stress of fighting in a war.
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • betake oneself — to go; move
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • block faulting — the process by which tensional forces in the earth's crust cause large bodies of rock to founder.
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • board of trade — (in the United Kingdom) a ministry within the Department of Trade: responsible for the supervision of commerce and the promotion of export trade
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • bradley effect — the distortion of opinion polls caused by the reluctance of respondents to admit to a preference that is regarded as socially unacceptable
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
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