11-letter words containing f, o, r, t
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- feme covert — a married woman.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- ferrocement — (of a boat hull) constructed of mortar troweled over a wire mesh that has been preshaped over a mold.
- ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
- fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
- 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).
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
- fibrination — (medicine) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first floor — the ground floor of a building.
- first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- flocculator — to form into flocculent masses.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- fluorometer — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- focal ratio — f-number.