7-letter words containing f, t
- heftily — heavy; weighty: a hefty book.
- hefting — weight; heaviness: It was a rather flimsy chair, without much heft to it.
- heifetz — Jascha [yah-shuh] /ˈyɑ ʃə/ (Show IPA), 1901–1987, U.S. violinist, born in Russia.
- hentoff — Nat(han Irving) born 1925, U.S. writer and critic.
- hit off — to deal a blow or stroke to: Hit the nail with the hammer.
- hoof it — the horny covering protecting the ends of the digits or encasing the foot in certain animals, as the ox and horse.
- hot fix — (storage) Novell, Inc.'s term for the feature of their network file server operating system, Novell NetWare, which handles errors in disk write operations. The OS re-reads every block it writes to disk while it holds the data to be written in memory. In the case of an error, the data block is written to a spare area on the disk. The feature lost much of its importance with the widespread use of hard disk drives with built-in error correction and bad block re-mapping.
- hot for — sexually attracted to
- hotfoot — a practical joke in which a match, inserted surreptitiously between the sole and upper of the victim's shoe, is lighted and allowed to burn down.
- hotwife — (slang) A married female swinger; a wife who has sex with men other than her husband, with the husband's approval.
- hurtful — causing hurt or injury; injurious; harmful.
- iffiest — full of unresolved points or questions: an iffy situation.
- in fact — something that actually exists; reality; truth: Your fears have no basis in fact.
- in fits — Someone who is in fits is laughing uncontrollably.
- indraft — an inward flow or current, as of air or water.
- infanta — a daughter of the king of Spain or of Portugal.
- infante — any son of the king of Spain or of Portugal who is not heir to the throne.
- infants — Plural form of infant.
- infarct — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infaust — (archaic) unlucky, unfortunate, ill-omened; unpropitious; sinister.
- infects — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infect.
- infests — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infest.
- infight — to box, or otherwise fight, at close quarters; to engage in infighting
- inflate — deflate
- inflect — to modulate (the voice).
- inflict — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- infobot — (chat) A bot that serves as a common database of information (often noteworthy URLs) for users on a chat system. Infobots often have a simple chatbot interface, responding to key-phrases, as well as to direct queries. Here, in a real conversation, the bot Purl's first response is triggered by the phrase "just tell me", and its second response is triggered by being directly asked "perlfunc?":
can someone tell me what: $num9 = substr($number,9,1); means eesh -- man perlfunc, look at "substr". just tell me Didn't your momma ever tell you, "Go look it up in the dictionary"?! eesh -- no. that's all we'll tell you. read the documentation. eesh -- if you haven't man pages or perldoc, you can read them on the 'net. purl, perlfunc? well, perlfunc is Perl builtin functions, at man perlfunc or http://perl.com/CPAN-local/doc/manual/html/pod/perlfunc.html http://cs.cmu.edu/~lenzo/infobot.html/. - infract — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- ingraft — engraft.
- introfy — to improve the ability of (a sanitary towel, nappy, etc) to absorb liquid
- jestful — a joke or witty remark; witticism.
- jetfoil — a passenger-carrying, jet-propelled hydrofoil, often having a control and stabilization system like that of an aircraft.
- justify — to show (an act, claim, statement, etc.) to be just or right: The end does not always justify the means.
- kistful — an amount that fills a kist
- kit fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- kit-fox — either of two small gray foxes, Vulpes macrotis and V. velox, found on plains and in open, sandy areas of western North America, commercially valuable for their fur.
- koftgar — (in India) a person skilled in the art of inlaying steel with gold (koftgari)
- lafitte — Jean [zhahn] /ʒɑ̃/ (Show IPA), c1780–c1825, French privateer in the Americas.
- leaflet — a small flat or folded sheet of printed matter, as an advertisement or notice, usually intended for free distribution.
- lefties — Plural form of lefty.
- leftish — somewhat left-wing
- leftism — a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
- leftist — a member of the political Left or a person sympathetic to its views.
- lesstif — (library) The Hungry Programmers' version of OSF/Motif. It will be source code compatible with Motif, meaning that the same source will compile with both libraries and work exactly the same. All the programming is being done with no reference to the header files for the motif widgets, so that LessTif can be distributed as free software.
- let fly — to move through the air using wings.
- let off — to allow or permit: to let him escape.
- lift up — raise
- liftboy — a person who operates a lift, esp in large public or commercial buildings and hotels
- lifters — Plural form of lifter.
- lifting — Weightlifting; a form of exercise in which weights are lifted.