10-letter words containing l, a, f, t
- fairy-tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairytales — Plural form of fairytale.
- faithfully — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- faldstools — Plural form of faldstool.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fall apart — physically: into pieces
- fall front — a part of a desk front, hinged at the lower end and opening out to provide a writing surface.
- fall short — not be satisfactory
- false cast — a throw of the line in fly casting in which the line, leader, and fly are prevented from hitting the water.
- false step — a stumble.
- familistic — the subordination of the personal interests and prerogatives of an individual to the values and demands of the family: Familism characterized the patriarchal family.
- fan letter — a letter sent by an admiring fan, as to a celebrity.
- fastballer — (baseball) One who pitches fastballs.
- faster lex — (language) (FLEX) A reimplementation of the Lex scanner generator, by Vern Paxson <[email protected]>. FTP flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a GNU archive site or ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex-2.4.3.tar.Z.
- fat client — (networking) Opposite of "thin client".
- fatalistic — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fatalities — Plural form of fatality.
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fatherless — not having a living father: a fatherless boy.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fathomless — impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- fault line — the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- fault-find — to seek out minor imperfections or errors; carp
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- felicitate — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- fellatio's — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
- fellatrice — a female fellator
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- fenestella — a small aperture in the front of an altar, containing relics
- fibrillate — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fibroblast — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fieldcraft — (military) The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
- filamented — Of or relating to a filament; having filaments; filamentous.
- filet lace — a square mesh net or lace, originally knotted by hand but now copied by machine.
- filiations — Plural form of filiation.
- film at 11 — (jargon) (MIT, in parody of US TV newscasters) 1. Used in conversation to announce ordinary events, with a sarcastic implication that these events are earth-shattering. "ITS crashes; film at 11." "Bug found in scheduler; film at 11." 2. Also widely used outside MIT to indicate that additional information will be available at some future time, *without* the implication of anything particularly ordinary about the referenced event. For example, "The mail file server died this morning; we found garbage all over the root directory. Film at 11." would indicate that a major failure had occurred but that the people working on it have no additional information about it as yet; use of the phrase in this way suggests gently that the problem is liable to be fixed more quickly if the people doing the fixing can spend time doing the fixing rather than responding to questions, the answers to which will appear on the normal "11:00 news", if people will just be patient.
- filterable — capable of being filtered.
- filtrating — Present participle of filtrate.
- filtration — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
- finalities — Plural form of finality.
- find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fire trail — a permanent track cleared through the bush to provide access for fire-fighting