11-letter words containing f, e, t, o, l
- exfoliative — That causes, or is accompanied by, exfoliation.
- extrafloral — produced or occurring outside a flower
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
- false topaz — citrine (def 2).
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- 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.
- fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- feuilletons — (British) Plural form of feuilleton.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flat season — the part of the year during which flat racing takes place
- flat-footed — having flatfeet.
- flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
- flatten out — to make or become flat or flatter by spreading out
- fleetfooted — Swift on one's feet.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flintstones — Plural form of flintstone.
- float valve — a valve admitting or discharging a liquid to or from a tank and regulated by a float on the surface of the liquid within the tank to maintain a nearly constant height of liquid.
- floatplanes — Plural form of floatplane.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- flooded out — inundated by floodwater
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- fluorometer — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- folio recto — the front of the page; recto (opposed to folio verso).
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
- foot-candle — a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbreviation: FC.