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11-letter words containing f, o, n, t, l

  • fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
  • 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.
  • in light of — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
  • infield out — a put-out recorded by a member of the infield.
  • infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
  • inflections — Plural form of inflection.
  • inflictions — Plural form of infliction.
  • informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
  • infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
  • insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
  • interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
  • interfluous — interfluent
  • la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
  • labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
  • lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
  • lactoflavin — riboflavin.
  • lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
  • lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
  • malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
  • malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
  • montefeltro — an Italian noble family who ruled Urbino from the 13th to the 16th century. Federigo Montefeltro, duke of Urbino (1422–82), was a noted patron of the arts and military leader
  • montgolfier — a balloon raised by air heated from a fire in the lower part.
  • myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
  • nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones
  • no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
  • nonaffluent — not affluent or rich
  • nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
  • nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
  • northcliffeViscount, Alfred Charles William Harmsworth.
  • offset-line — something that counterbalances, counteracts, or compensates for something else; compensating equivalent.
  • on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
  • out of line — a mark or stroke long in proportion to its breadth, made with a pen, pencil, tool, etc., on a surface: a line down the middle of the page.
  • outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
  • overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
  • pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
  • platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
  • polar front — Meteorology. the variable frontal zone of middle latitudes separating air masses of polar and tropical origin.
  • pontificals — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
  • prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
  • reflections — thoughts, esp careful or long-considered ones
  • reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
  • satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
  • self-strong — having, showing, or able to exert great bodily or muscular power; physically vigorous or robust: a strong boy.
  • shoplifting — to steal (merchandise) as a shoplifter.
  • single-foot — rack3 (def 1).
  • 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.
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