11-letter words containing f, o, t, n
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- fomentation — encouragement of discord, rebellion, etc.; instigation.
- foot-candle — a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbreviation: FC.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- for nothing — freely, free
- for want of — If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.
- foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
- forcipation — the state or condition of being forcipated
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foredestine — (rare) predestine.
- foremastman — a sailor positioned before the foremast
- forepayment — prepayment
- foreshorten — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forestation — the planting of forests.
- forestlands — Plural form of forestland.
- foretelling — Present participle of foretell.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- fork-tender — (of food, especially meat) cooked so that it can be cut or pierced easily with a fork.
- formational — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- formfitting — designed to fit snugly around a given shape; close-fitting: a formfitting blouse.
- formication — a tactile hallucination involving the belief that something is crawling on the body or under the skin.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- fornicating — to commit fornication.
- fornication — voluntary sexual intercourse between two unmarried persons or two persons not married to each other.
- fornicators — Plural form of fornicator.
- fornicatory — Of or pertaining to fornication.
- fornicatrix — a woman who commits fornication.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fort carson — a military reservation in E central Colorado, S of Colorado Springs.
- fort devens — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Massachusetts, SW of Ayer.
- fort gordon — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in N central Georgia, SW of Augusta.
- fort monroe — Harriet, 1861?–1936, U.S. editor and poet.
- fort nelson — a river in NE British Columbia, flowing NW to the Liard River. 100 miles (160 km) long.
- fort orange — a member of a European princely family ruling in the United Kingdom from 1688 to 1694 and in the Netherlands since 1815.
- forte-piano — loud and then immediately soft
- fortepianos — Plural form of fortepiano.
- forthcoming — coming, forth, or about to come forth; about to appear; approaching in time: the forthcoming concert.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- fortran iii — This was only distributed to ca. 20 sites. See Wexelblat.
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fortuneless — Unlucky, unfortunate.