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11-letter words containing f, e, t

  • fesse point — the midpoint of a shield
  • festinately — hurried.
  • festinating — hurried.
  • festination — a gait marked by an involuntary hurrying in walking, observed in certain nerve diseases.
  • festiveness — The quality of being festive; festivity.
  • festivities — a festive celebration or occasion.
  • festschrift — (often initial capital letter) a volume of articles, essays, etc., contributed by many authors in honor of a colleague, usually published on the occasion of retirement, an important anniversary, or the like.
  • fetishising — Present participle of fetishise.
  • fetishistic — belief in or use of fetishes.
  • fetishizing — Present participle of fetishize.
  • fetoprotein — (protein) Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein.
  • fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
  • feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
  • feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
  • feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
  • feuilletons — (British) Plural form of feuilleton.
  • fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
  • fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
  • fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
  • fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
  • fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
  • fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
  • fictiveness — The quality of being fictive.
  • fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • fidgetiness — The state or condition of being fidgety.
  • field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • field study — observation of nature in the wild
  • field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
  • field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
  • fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
  • fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
  • fifteenthly — in the fifteenth place or position
  • fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
  • fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
  • fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
  • fifty-eight — a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.
  • fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
  • fifty-three — a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
  • fight-o-net — (messaging)   A distortion of FidoNet, often applied after a flurry of flamage in a particular echo, especially the SYSOP echo or Fidonews.
  • fighter jet — a jet fighter, or fighter plane propelled by a jet engine
  • filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file attach — [FidoNet] 1. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another. 2. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
  • fillet weld — a weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle.
  • fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
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