11-letter words containing f, e, t
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- ftp archive — archive site
- fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
- fugitometer — an instrument used for measuring the fastness to light of dyed materials
- fulfillment — the act or state of fulfilling: to witness the fulfillment of a dream; to achieve fulfillment of one's hopes.
- full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
- full-length — of standard or customary length: a full-length movie.
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
- fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- funded debt — a debt, as in the form of bonds, having a long period of maturity.
- furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
- furtherance — the act of furthering; promotion; advancement.
- furtherment — The act or process of furthering; furtherance.
- furthermore — moreover; besides; in addition: Furthermore, he left orders not to be disturbed.
- furthermost — most distant: Their house is furthermost on the right.
- furthersome — tending to further or promote; helpful
- furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
- furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
- fussbudgets — Plural form of fussbudget.
- fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
- future life — afterlife (def 1).
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- gaffer tape — strong adhesive tape used in electrical repairs
- garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- gentrifiers — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- gentrifying — Present participle of gentrify.
- genuflected — Simple past tense and past participle of genuflect.
- 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.
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- get shot of — to get rid of
- get shut of — to get rid of
- get wind of — hear rumours of
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- gluten-free — (of food, a diet, etc) not containing gluten
- 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.
- grand theft — stealing large amount
- grandfather — the father of one's father or mother.
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- 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.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- great falls — a city in central Montana, on the Missouri River.
- green stuff — paper money.
- gulf states — the oil-producing states around the Persian Gulf: Iran, Iraq, Kuwait, Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Qatar, the United Arab Emirates, and Oman
- gulf stream — a warm ocean current flowing N from the Gulf of Mexico, along the E coast of the U.S., to an area off the SE coast of Newfoundland, where it becomes the western terminus of the North Atlantic Current.