10-letter words containing f, e, t, l
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- little fox — the constellation Vulpecula.
- look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- love feast — (among the early Christians) a meal eaten in token of brotherly love and charity; agape.
- luftmensch — a person unconcerned with the practicalities of earning a living
- lust after — desire sexually
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- maleficent — doing evil or harm; harmfully malicious: maleficent destroyers of reputations.
- malfeasant — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
- manifestly — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- melon foot — a bun foot having vertical channels.
- metafemale — (biology) A female with triple X syndrome.
- mistflower — a North American composite plant, Eupatorium coelestinum, having heads of blue flowers.
- mouth feel — the tactile sensation a food gives to the mouth: a creamy mouthfeel.
- mouth-feel — the tactile sensation a food gives to the mouth: a creamy mouthfeel.
- muffuletta — a thick, round sandwich similar to a hero, typically containing ham, salami, and cheeses and topped with an olive salad, a specialty of New Orleans.
- multifaced — having a specified kind of face or number of faces (usually used in combination): a sweet-faced child; the two-faced god.
- multifacet — Having many facets.
- neglectful — characterized by neglect; disregardful; careless; negligent (often followed by of): neglectful of one's health.
- nettlefish — jellyfish.
- neufchatel — a soft, white cheese similar to cream cheese, made from whole or partly skimmed milk in Neufchâtel, a town in N France.
- night life — entertainment at night
- northfield — a town in SE Minnesota.
- nose flute — (esp in the South Sea Islands) a type of flute blown through the nose
- notifiable — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- o'flaherty — Liam [lee-uh m] /ˈli əm/ (Show IPA), 1896–1984, Irish novelist.
- off-kilter — not exactly straight or balanced; askew; uneven: off-kilter paintings on every wall.
- offsetable — able to balance, counteract, or compensate for something else
- oil filter — a filter that removes impurities from engine oil
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- on the fly — to move through the air using wings.
- 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.
- out-relief — public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution.
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outflanked — Simple past tense and past participle of outflank.
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- 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.
- peoplesoft — (application, company) A company selling web-based ERP systems. Originally PeopleSoft supplied human resource management systems, they now provide financial data management, customer relationship management, supply chain management, workforce management, and data analytics systems.
- 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 .
- pitcherful — the amount held by a pitcher.
- pittsfield — a city in W Massachusetts.
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- pluperfect — Grammar. perfect with respect to a point of reference in past time, as had done in He had done it when I came. designating a tense or other verb formation or construction with such meaning, as Latin portāveram “I had carried.”.
- pratfallen — having fallen upon one's buttocks
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- prefulgent — more radiant than others
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.