11-letter words containing l, a, f, o, n, t
- focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- 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.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forestlands — Plural form of forestland.
- formational — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- nasofrontal — of or relating to the nasal and frontal bones
- no-platform — to deny (a person) the opportunity to speak in a political debate or forum
- nonaffluent — not affluent or rich
- nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- on the flat — On the flat means on level ground.
- outflanking — Present participle of outflank.
- overinflate — to inflate to an excessive degree
- platforming — a process for reforming petroleum using a platinum catalyst
- 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.
- prone float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- reinflation — Economics. a persistent, substantial rise in the general level of prices related to an increase in the volume of money and resulting in the loss of value of currency (opposed to deflation).
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.
- soft launch — the launch of a website in stages, with regular updating