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11-letter words containing o, f, t, e

  • fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
  • fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
  • fatal error — (programming, operating system)   Any error which causes abrupt termination of the program. The program may be terminated either by itself or by the operating system (a "fatal exception"). In the former instance, the program contains code which catches the error and, as a result, returns to the operating system or calls an operating system service to terminate the program.
  • fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
  • fatuousness — The characteristic of being fatuous.
  • feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
  • featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
  • fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
  • federations — Plural form of federation.
  • feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
  • felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
  • feme covert — a married woman.
  • femtosecond — One quadrillionth of a second.
  • fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
  • ferrocement — (of a boat hull) constructed of mortar troweled over a wire mesh that has been preshaped over a mold.
  • ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
  • fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
  • fescue foot — a disease of the feet of cattle associated with feeding on certain fungus-infested fescue grasses, characterized by lameness and sometimes leading to gangrene.
  • fesse point — the midpoint of a shield
  • festination — a gait marked by an involuntary hurrying in walking, observed in certain nerve diseases.
  • fetoprotein — (protein) Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein.
  • fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
  • feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
  • feuilletons — (British) Plural form of feuilleton.
  • fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
  • fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
  • fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
  • fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
  • fifth force — a theoretical force in nature in addition to the strong and weak forces, gravitation, and the electromagnetic force.
  • fight-o-net — (messaging)   A distortion of FidoNet, often applied after a flurry of flamage in a particular echo, especially the SYSOP echo or Fidonews.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
  • first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
  • first-order — Not higher-order.
  • five stones — the game of jacks played with five stones
  • fixed costs — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
  • fixed point — (mathematics)   The fixed point of a function, f is any value, x for which f x = x. A function may have any number of fixed points from none (e.g. f x = x+1) to infinitely many (e.g. f x = x). The fixed point combinator, written as either "fix" or "Y" will return the fixed point of a function. See also least fixed point.
  • fixed-point — (programming)   A number representation scheme where a number, F is represented by an integer I such that F=I*R^-P, where R is the (assumed) radix of the representation and P is the (fixed) number of digits after the radix point. On computers with no floating-point unit, fixed-point calculations are significantly faster than floating-point as all the operations are basically integer operations. Fixed-point representation also has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is R^-P throughout the representable range, in contrast to floating-point representations. For example, in PL/I, FIXED data has both a precision and a scale-factor (P above). So a number declared as 'FIXED DECIMAL(7,2)' has a precision of seven and a scale-factor of two, indicating five integer and two fractional decimal digits. The smallest difference between numbers will be 0.01.
  • flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
  • flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
  • flat season — the part of the year during which flat racing takes place
  • flat-footed — having flatfeet.
  • flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
  • flatten out — to make or become flat or flatter by spreading out
  • fleetfooted — Swift on one's feet.
  • fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
  • flintstones — Plural form of flintstone.
  • 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.
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