11-letter words containing l, o, f, t
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- frivolities — the quality or state of being frivolous: the frivolity of Mardi Gras.
- 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.
- front vowel — a vowel sound produced with the tongue in a position near the front of the mouth, such as the 'a' in 'at' or the 'e' in bed
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
- frostflower — a plant, Milla biflora, of the amaryllis family, native to the southwestern U.S. and Mexico.
- fruticulose — (botany) Like, or pertaining to, a small shrub.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
- full-custom — Design of integrated circuits at the transistor or polygon level. This is in contrast to the use of libraries of components. Full-custom design requires considerable skill and experience and is usually only feasible for simple circuits, especially ones with much repetition, such as memory device, where a small saving in the size and power consumption of a component will yield a large overall saving.
- 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
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- get hold of — to have or keep in the hand; keep fast; grasp: She held the purse in her right hand. He held the child's hand in his.
- 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.
- half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halo effect — a predisposition to admire all of a person's actions, work, etc., because of an estimable quality or action in the past.
- health food — any natural food popularly believed to promote or sustain good health, as by containing vital nutrients, being grown without the use of pesticides, or having a low sodium or fat content.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- hop trefoil — a leguminous plant, Trifolium campestre, of N temperate grasslands, with globular yellow flower heads and trifoliate leaves
- host family — family one lodges with
- hot flushes — a sudden unpleasant hot feeling in the skin, caused by endocrine imbalance, esp experienced by women at menopause
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- hyposulfite — Also called hydrosulfite. a salt of hyposulfurous acid.
- in light of — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- infield out — a put-out recorded by a member of the infield.
- infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
- inflections — Plural form of inflection.
- inflictions — Plural form of infliction.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
- interfluous — interfluent
- la follette — Robert Marion, 1855–1925, U.S. political leader: U.S. senator 1906–25.
- la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lead-footed — awkward; clumsy.
- leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.