12-letter words containing f, t
- flight level — a specified height at which an aircraft is allowed to fly
- flight nurse — a nurse in the U.S. Air Force who tends patients being transported by airplane.
- flight strip — Aeronautics. a strip of cleared land used as an emergency runway for aircraft. runway.
- flightworthy — being in proper physical or mechanical condition for safe flight; airworthy: a flightworthy spacecraft.
- flittermouse — bat2 (def 1).
- float around — A rumour or idea that is floating around is often heard or talked about.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- float collar — A float collar is a part near the bottom of the casing string which catches the bottom plug and top plug, and which prevents mud from entering the casing.
- float switch — an electric switch controlled by a conductor floating in a liquid.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flocculating — Present participle of flocculate.
- flocculation — to form into flocculent masses.
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- floodlighted — Simple past tense and past participle of floodlight.
- floor pocket — one of several metal boxes placed backstage in the floor (floor pocket) or wall of a theater and containing jacks for electric cables used in lighting units.
- floor trader — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for his or her own account.
- floor-length — extending to the floor: a floor-length skirt.
- floriculture — the cultivation of flowers or flowering plants, especially for ornamental purposes.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flour sifter — a container in which flour is sifted
- flourishment — The act or state of flourishing.
- flow control — (communications, protocol) The collection of techniques used in serial communications to stop the sender sending data until the receiver can accept it. This may be either software flow control or hardware flow control. The receiver typically has a fixed size buffer into which received data is written as soon as it is received. When the amount of buffered data exceeds a "high water mark", the receiver will signal to the transmitter to stop transmitting until the process reading the data has read sufficient data from the buffer that it has reached its "low water mark", at which point the receiver signals to the transmitter to resume transmission.
- flow country — an area of moorland and peat bogs in northern Scotland known for its wildlife, now partly afforested
- flow pattern — The flow pattern is the way in which fluids move through a reactor.
- flowcharting — (computing) the design and construction of flowcharts.
- fluctuations — Plural form of fluctuation.
- fluid assets — assets that are in the form of cash or easily convertible into cash
- fluidextract — a liquid preparation, containing alcohol as a solvent or as a preservative, that contains in each cubic centimeter the medicinal activity of one gram of the crude drug in powdered form.
- fluidization — The act or process of fluidizing.
- fluoranthene — (organic compound) A polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon consisting of a benzene ring attached to each of the rings of a naphthalene molecule; it is carcinogenic, and is a product of incomplete combustion.
- fluorapatite — a crystalline mineral, Ca 5 (PO 4) 3 F, formed from hydroxyapatite in the presence of fluoride, that has a hardening effect on bones and teeth.
- fluorescents — Plural form of fluorescent.
- fluoridating — Present participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridation — the addition of fluorides to the public water supply to reduce the incidence of tooth decay.
- fluorimeters — Plural form of fluorimeter.
- fluorimetric — Alternative form of fluorometric.
- fluorinating — Present participle of fluorinate.
- fluorination — (chemistry) The introduction of fluorine into a compound by means of a chemical reaction.
- fluorometers — Plural form of fluorometer.
- fluorometric — Of, pertaining to, or measured using fluorometry.
- fluosilicate — a salt of fluosilicic acid.
- flusteration — (colloquial, dated) The act of flustering, or the state of being flustered.
- flutter kick — a swimming kick in which the legs make rapid alternate up-and-down movements while the knees remain rigid, as in the crawl.
- flutter mill — a flutter wheel, especially a small one designed as a child's plaything.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- flux density — the magnetic, radiant, or electric flux per unit of cross-sectional area.
- fly the coop — an enclosure, cage, or pen, usually with bars or wires, in which fowls or other small animals are confined for fattening, transportation, etc.
- fly the flag — to represent or show support for one's country, an organization, etc