12-letter words containing f, t
- fatigue life — the number of applications of a given stress to which a sample of metal can be subjected before failing.
- fatty tissue — tissue with excessive accumulation of fat
- fault-finder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultfinding — the act of pointing out faults, especially faults of a petty nature; carping.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- favorite son — (at a national political convention) a candidate nominated for office by delegates from his or her own state.
- fayetteville — a city in S North Carolina.
- feather palm — any palm having large pinnate or bipinnate leaves, as the date palm or royal palm.
- feather shot — fine bean shot.
- feather star — a free-swimming crinoid.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- featherheads — Plural form of featherhead.
- featheriness — The state or quality of being feathery.
- featherlight — extremely light; light as a feather.
- feature film — full-length movie
- featurectomy — /fee"ch*r-ek"t*-mee/ The act of removing a feature from a program. Featurectomies come in two flavours, the "righteous" and the "reluctant". Righteous featurectomies are performed because the remover believes the program would be more elegant without the feature, or there is already an equivalent and better way to achieve the same end. (Doing so is not quite the same thing as removing a misfeature.) Reluctant featurectomies are performed to satisfy some external constraint such as code size or execution speed.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- fed to death — bored or annoyed
- federalistic — an advocate of federalism.
- federatively — from a federative point of view
- feeding time — the regular time at which babies or animals are fed
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- feel cheated — If you feel cheated, you feel that you have been let down or treated unfairly.
- feet of clay — a weakness or hidden flaw in the character of a greatly admired or respected person: He was disillusioned to find that even Lincoln had feet of clay.
- feldspathoid — Also, feldspathoidal. of or relating to a group of minerals similar in chemical composition to certain feldspars except for a lower silica content.
- feldspathose — (mineralogy) Containing feldspar.
- felicitating — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- felicitation — an expression of good wishes; congratulation.
- felicitously — In a felicitous manner.
- felt-tip pen — a pen that holds quick-drying ink conveyed to a writing surface by means of a felt nib.
- femininities — Plural form of femininity.
- feminisation — Alternative spelling of feminization.
- feminization — The act of feminizing, or the state of being feminized.
- femme fatale — an irresistibly attractive woman, especially one who leads men into difficult, dangerous, or disastrous situations; siren.
- fence-sitter — a person who remains neutral or undecided in a controversy.
- fenestration — the design and disposition of windows and other exterior openings of a building.
- ferlinghetti — Lawrence, born 1920? U.S. poet associated with the Beat Generation.
- fermat prime — (mathematics) A prime number of the form 2^2^n + 1. Any prime number of the form 2^n+1 must be a Fermat prime. Fermat conjectured in a letter to someone or other that all numbers 2^2^n+1 are prime, having noticed that this is true for n=0,1,2,3,4. No further Fermat primes are known; several have been factorised, and several more have been proved composite without finding explicit factorisations.
- fermentation — the act or process of fermenting.
- fermentative — tending to produce or undergo fermentation.
- ferrite core — a ferrite magnetic core used in a core memory.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- festivalgoer — A person attending a festival.
- festschrifts — Plural form of festschrift.
- fete galante — fête champêtre.
- fetoproteins — Plural form of fetoprotein.
- feuchtwanger — Lion [lee-awn] /ˈli ɔn/ (Show IPA), 1884–1958, German novelist and dramatist.
- fianarantsoa — a city in E central Madagascar.
- fianchettoed — Simple past tense and past participle of fianchetto.