11-letter words containing f, t
- overfraught — too fraught
- overfreight — to load too heavily
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
- overstuffed — stuffed or filled to excess.
- oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
- oyster farm — a place where oyster beds are kept.
- oyster fork — a small, three-pronged fork, used especially in eating seafood.
- p.p. factor — nicotinic acid or its amide, nicotinamide, being the vitamin-B-complex members that serve to prevent pellagra.
- pacificator — to pacify.
- panel thief — a thief who secretly robs the customers in a panel house.
- parfocality — the quality of being parfocal
- park forest — a city in NE Illinois.
- parrot-fish — any of various chiefly tropical marine fishes, especially of the family Scaridae: so called because of their brilliant coloring and the shape of their jaws.
- pastry chef — cook who specializes in patisserie
- pasty-faced — having a pale, unhealthy, sallow complexion: an awkward, pasty-faced youth.
- patelliform — having the form of a patella; shaped like a saucer, kneecap, or limpet shell.
- pathfinding — a person who finds or makes a path, way, route, etc., especially through a previously unexplored or untraveled wilderness.
- pathoformic — Pathology. pertaining to the beginning of a disease, especially to symptoms that occur in the preliminary stages of mental disease.
- perfect gas — ideal gas.
- perfectible — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
- perfectness — conforming absolutely to the description or definition of an ideal type: a perfect sphere; a perfect gentleman.
- perforation — a hole, or one of a series of holes, bored or punched through something, as those between individual postage stamps of a sheet to facilitate separation.
- perforative — that perforates readily
- perfunctory — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- pestiferous — bringing or bearing disease.
- petit fours — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pettifogger — a lawyer of inferior status who conducts unimportant cases, esp one who is unscrupulous or resorts to trickery
- photoflight — pertaining to a flight made for the purpose of aerial photography.
- pigeon loft — a raised shelter or building where pigeons are kept
- pin-feather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pipe fitter — a person who installs and repairs pipe systems.
- pipefitting — a joint or connector, as an elbow, union, or tee, used in a pipe system.
- pitch-faced — (of a stone) having all arrises in the same plane and the faces roughly dressed with a pick.
- plate proof — proof taken from a plate ready for printing.
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- plentifully — existing in great plenty: Coal was plentiful, and therefore cheap, in that region.
- ploughstaff — one of the handles of a plough
- pocketknife — a knife with one or more blades that fold into the handle, suitable for carrying in the pocket.
- podetiiform — shaped like a podetium.
- point after — a score given for a successful kick between the goalposts and above the crossbar, following a touchdown
- poke fun at — to prod or push, especially with something narrow or pointed, as a finger, elbow, stick, etc.: to poke someone in the ribs.
- 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.
- pontificate — the office or term of office of a pontiff.
- post office — an office or station of a government postal system at which mail is received and sorted, from which it is dispatched and distributed, and at which stamps are sold or other services rendered.
- pot of gold — the realization of all one's hopes and dreams; ultimate success, fulfillment, or happiness: to find the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow.
- prefectship — the position of, or period served as, a prefect
- prefectural — the office, jurisdiction, territory, or official residence of a prefect.
- prefunction — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.