10-letter words containing f, o, t, a
- party food — food that is served at parties; snacks
- patient of — capable of bearing (fatigue, thirst, etc.)
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- perforated — perforated.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- photoflash — flashbulb.
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pilot flag — the flag symbolizing the letter G in the International Code of Signals, flown by itself to request a pilot from a pilot service: a flag of three yellow and three blue vertical stripes.
- plant food — nourishment, as fertilizer or chemicals, for plants.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- poop staff — ensign staff.
- pot-au-feu — a dish of boiled meat and vegetables, the broth of which is usually served separately.
- pre-format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- root graft — Horticulture. the process of grafting a shoot or stem of one plant onto a section of root of another.
- rotorcraft — a rotary-wing aircraft.
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- sandalfoot — (of women's hosiery) having no darker or thicker reinforced areas at the toe or heel, so as to be suitable for wear with sandal-type shoes.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- soft armor — quilted fabric used as armor.
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- somatoform — characterized by symptoms suggesting a physical disorder but for which there are no demonstrable organic findings or known physiological mechanisms.
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
- splay-foot — a broad, flat foot, especially one turned outward.
- sports fan — sb who enjoys watching or playing sport
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc