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11-letter words containing f, l, a, t

  • self-taught — taught to oneself or by oneself to be (as indicated) without the aid of a formal education: self-taught typing; a self-taught typist.
  • septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
  • shaft alley — an enclosure on a ship for housing a propeller shaft and a walk for oilers.
  • shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
  • sheriffalty — shrievalty.
  • slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
  • small stuff — small cordage, as marlines, yarns, etc.
  • soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating
  • soft palate — Anatomy. the roof of the mouth, consisting of an anterior bony portion (hard palate) and a posterior muscular portion (soft palate) that separate the oral cavity from the nasal cavity.
  • soothfastly — in a soothfast manner
  • spaceflight — the flying of manned or unmanned spacecraft into or in outer space.
  • stagflation — an inflationary period accompanied by rising unemployment and lack of growth in consumer demand and business activity.
  • steadfastly — fixed in direction; steadily directed: a steadfast gaze.
  • steel-faced — having the front or outer surfaces covered with or characterized by steel.
  • stick float — a float attached at the top and bottom to the line
  • still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
  • strand wolf — brown hyena.
  • strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
  • studio flat — a flat with one main room
  • subaffluent — between poor and affluent
  • sulfonation — the process of attaching the sulfonic acid group, –SO 3 H, directly to carbon in an organic compound.
  • sulfuration — to combine, treat, or impregnate with sulfur, the fumes of burning sulfur, etc.
  • tachina fly — any of numerous dipterous insects of the family Tachinidae, the larvae of which are parasitic on caterpillars, beetles, and other insects.
  • tactfulness — having or manifesting tact: a tactful person; a tactful reply.
  • taffy apple — candy apple.
  • tailleferre — Germaine, 1892–1983, French composer.
  • take flight — an act or instance of fleeing or running away; hasty departure.
  • talk out of — dissuade
  • tariff line — an item listed in a country's tariff schedule
  • teaspoonful — the amount a teaspoon can hold.
  • telefeature — a major dramatic television film, usually of a length comparable to a theatrical feature film.
  • that's life — expressing acceptance of fate
  • the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
  • thiosulfate — a salt or ester of thiosulfuric acid.
  • tibiofibula — the bone of a frog's lower leg
  • tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
  • toploftical — having a superior or disdainful attitude; toplofty
  • trafficable — that can be traveled upon: a trafficable road.
  • tragic flaw — the character defect that causes the downfall of the protagonist of a tragedy; hamartia.
  • transferral — transference; transfer.
  • travel film — a filmed documentary showing travel in a certain country or region
  • trifluralin — a selective herbicide, C 13 H 16 F 3 N 3 O 4 , used to control weeds.
  • twelfth day — the 12th day after Christmas, January 6, on which the festival of the Epiphany is celebrated: formerly observed as the last day of the Christmas festivities.
  • twelfth man — a reserve player in a cricket team
  • ultrafilter — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
  • unafflicted — to distress with mental or bodily pain; trouble greatly or grievously: to be afflicted with arthritis.
  • unbeautiful — lacking beauty; not beautiful
  • unfaltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
  • unfatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
  • unflattened — to make flat.
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