11-letter words containing o, f, t, r, a
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- free-to-air — Free-to-air television programmes and channels do not require a subscription or payment.
- from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
- from a to z — covering a whole topic
- from nature — using natural models in drawing, painting, etc
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front range — a mountain range extending from central Colorado to S Wyoming: part of the Rocky Mountains. Highest peak, Grays Peak, 14,274 feet (4350 meters).
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- frost grape — riverbank grape.
- frost heave — an uplift in soil caused by the freezing of internal moisture.
- fructuation — the process of producing fruit
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- futz around — to pass time in idleness (usually followed by around).
- granitiform — resembling granite
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- hard-fought — firmly or passionately contested or struggled for
- hare's-foot — a leguminous annual plant, Trifolium arvense, that grows on sandy soils in Europe and NW Asia and has downy heads of white or pink flowers
- heterograft — xenograft.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- house-craft — skill in domestic management
- housefather — a man responsible for a group of young people, as students, living in a dormitory, hostel, etc.
- hovercrafts — (nonstandard) Plural form of hovercraft.
- i formation — an offensive alignment in which the backs are positioned in line directly behind the quarterback.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- imperforate — Also, imperforated. not perforate; having no perforation.
- infarctions — Plural form of infarction.
- infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- informatics — the study of information processing; computer science.
- information — knowledge communicated or received concerning a particular fact or circumstance; news: information concerning a crime.
- informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- informatize — (of a country, region, etc) to undergo the development of an information-based economy on an extensive scale
- informatory — Providing or communicating information.
- infortunate — of or relating to infortune.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- infractions — Plural form of infraction.
- infuriation — to make furious; enrage.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- intrafusion — The act of pouring into a vessel.
- 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.
- load factor — the amount or weight of cargo, number of passengers, etc., that an aircraft, vehicle, or vessel can carry.
- lone father — a father with no wife or partner, who is bringing up a child or children