11-letter words containing f, e, t
- insufflated — Simple past tense and past participle of insufflate.
- intensified — Simple past tense and past participle of intensify.
- intensifier — a person or thing that intensifies.
- intensifies — to make intense or more intense.
- interfacial — included between two faces.
- interfacing — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interfamily — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- interfering — to come into opposition, as one thing with another, especially with the effect of hampering action or procedure (often followed by with): Constant distractions interfere with work.
- interferons — Plural form of interferon.
- interfinger — (of sedimentary rocks) to change laterally from one type to another in a zone where the two types form interpenetrating wedges.
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- interfluent — flowing into one another; intermingling.
- interfluous — interfluent
- interfluves — Plural form of interfluve.
- interfusion — to intersperse, intermingle, or permeate with something.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- interoffice — functioning or communicating between the offices of a company or organization; within a company: an interoffice memo.
- intreatfull — full of entreaty
- iron-fisted — ruthless, harsh, and tyrannical: an ironfisted dictator.
- irrefutable — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- jack rafter — a rafter having less than the full length of the roof slope, as one meeting a hip or a valley.
- jet fighter — aeronautics
- justifiable — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- keep out of — to remain or cause to remain unexposed to
- kerr effect — the double refraction of light in certain substances, produced by an electric field.
- kite flying — an act or instance of flying a kite.
- kitesurfing — The sport or pastime of riding on a modified surfboard while holding on to a specially designed kite, using the wind for propulsion.
- knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
- knife-point — the sharp tip of a knife.
- knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
- la follette — Robert Marion, 1855–1925, U.S. political leader: U.S. senator 1906–25.
- la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lake effect — the phenomena created in the surrounding area by weather passing over a large lake, especially any of the Great Lakes of the U.S.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lake-effect — caused or greatly influenced by the moist air above a large lake
- lancet fish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- lantern fly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- latticeleaf — laceleaf.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- leaf beetle — any of numerous, often brightly colored beetles of the family Chrysomelidae, that feed on the leaves of plants, the larvae of which infest the roots, stem, and leaves.
- leaf blight — a symptom or phase of many diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic spots or streaks on the leaves, accompanied by seed rot and seedling blight.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
- leaf insect — any of several orthopterous insects of the family Phillidae, of southern Asia and the East Indies, having a body that resembles a leaf in color and form.
- leaf sheath — the basal part of a grass leaf that encircles the stem
- leafleteers — Plural form of leafleteer.