11-letter words containing o, f, l, a, t, e
- float valve — a valve admitting or discharging a liquid to or from a tank and regulated by a float on the surface of the liquid within the tank to maintain a nearly constant height of liquid.
- floatplanes — Plural form of floatplane.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
- 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.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forestalled — Simple past tense and past participle of forestall.
- forestaller — A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices.
- forestlands — Plural form of forestland.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- forficulate — resembling scissors
- forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- foul matter — Printing. materials, as manuscript, galleys, or proofs, that have been superseded by revised proofs or galleys or by the bound book, and have been returned to the publisher by the printer.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- 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.
- hotel staff — employees of a hotel
- 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.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- 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.
- 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.
- malefactors — Plural form of malefactor.