11-letter words containing f, t
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- folio recto — the front of the page; recto (opposed to folio verso).
- folklorists — Plural form of folklorist.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- follow shot — Also, following shot. Movies, Television. a traveling shot made as the camera moves along with the subject: a follow shot of the buffalo stampede, taken from a low-flying helicopter.
- follow suit — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
- fomentation — encouragement of discord, rebellion, etc.; instigation.
- food desert — an area, usually low-income, in which many residents cannot easily get to stores that sell affordable, healthful foods.
- fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
- foot doctor — a podiatrist.
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- foot patrol — an assigned or habitual round or route, as of a police officer or sentry
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- 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.
- footballist — Lb dated A football player.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- footlockers — Plural form of footlocker.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
- footslogger — Common term for a foot soldier. A person who footslogs.
- footsoldier — Alternative spelling of foot soldier.
- for a start — to begin with, in the first place
- 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.
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
- foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
- force-draft — to draft (a law, proposal, or the like) quickly or under extreme pressure: The committee must force-draft a code of ethics to present to the meeting tomorrow.
- forcipation — the state or condition of being forcipated
- forecasters — Plural form of forecaster.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- foredestine — (rare) predestine.
- forefathers — Plural form of forefather.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- foremastman — a sailor positioned before the foremast
- foremothers — Plural form of foremother.
- forepayment — prepayment
- forequarter — the forward end of half of a carcass, as of beef or lamb.
- 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.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forest fire — uncontrolled fire in a woodland area
- forest hill — a town in N Texas.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forest park — a city in NW Georgia.