7-letter words containing o, f, t
- fallout — the settling to the ground of airborne particles ejected into the atmosphere from the earth by explosions, eruptions, forest fires, etc., especially such settling from nuclear explosions (radioactive fallout) Compare rainout.
- fan out — spread
- fan-out — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
- fantods — Usually, fantods. a state of extreme nervousness or restlessness; the willies; the fidgets (usually preceded by the): We all developed the fantods when the plane was late in arriving.
- fanwort — any aquatic plant belonging to the genus Cabomba, of the water lily family, having very small flowers and submerged and floating leaves.
- far out — being at a great distance; remote in time or place: a far country; the far future.
- far-out — unconventional; offbeat; avant-garde.
- farmost — farthest, most distant
- farmout — an act or instance of farming out or leasing, as land for oil exploration.
- fat lot — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- fatbody — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- fathoms — Plural form of fathom.
- fatsoes — Plural form of fatso.
- fatuous — foolish or inane, especially in an unconscious, complacent manner; silly.
- fatwood — kindling; lightwood.
- feedlot — a plot of ground, often near a stockyard, where livestock are gathered to be fattened for market.
- felwort — (botany) A European herb, Swertia perennis, of the gentian family.
- fembots — Plural form of fembot.
- festoon — a string or chain of flowers, foliage, ribbon, etc., suspended in a curve between two points.
- fetlock — the projection of the leg of a horse behind the joint between the cannon bone and great pastern bone, bearing a tuft of hair.
- fiction — works of this class, as novels or short stories: detective fiction.
- fidonet — (messaging, networking, history) A worldwide hobbyist network of personal computers which exchanged e-mail, discussion groups, and files. Founded in 1984 and originally consisting only of IBM PCs and compatibles, FidoNet grew to include such diverse machines as Apple IIs, Ataris, Amigas and Unix systems. Though much younger than Usenet, by early 1991 FidoNet had reached a significant fraction of Usenet's size at some 8000 systems.
- figwort — any of numerous tall, usually coarse woodland plants of the genus Scrophularia, having a terminal cluster of small greenish-brown to purplish-brown flowers.
- filemot — a brown colour like that of a dead leaf
- finfoot — any of several aquatic birds of the family Heliornithidae, of South America, Asia, and Africa, related to the rails and coots and characterized by lobate toes.
- finspot — any clinid fish of the genus Paraclinus, having an eyelike spot on the dorsal fin, as P. integripinnis, of California.
- firepot — a small clay pot filled with combustible materials, formerly used as a missile
- fit out — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- fitzroy — Augustus Henry, 3rd Duke of Grafton [graf-tuh n,, grahf-] /ˈgræf tən,, ˈgrɑf-/ (Show IPA), 1735–1811, British statesman: prime minister 1768–70.
- fixator — a device incorporating a metal bar and pins that is used in stabilizing difficult bone fractures.
- flattop — an aircraft carrier.
- fletton — a type of relatively soft and porous brick made from Oxford clay, of which a large amount comes from near Fletton in Cambridgeshire
- floated — Simple past tense and past participle of float.
- floatel — a boat or ship that serves as a hotel, sometimes permanently moored to a dock.
- floater — a person or thing that floats.
- flokati — a thick, woolen rug with a shaggy pile, originally handwoven in Greece.
- floreat — may (a person, institution, etc) flourish
- florets — Plural form of floret.
- florist — a retailer of flowers, ornamental plants, etc.
- floruit — he (or she) flourished: used to indicate the period during which a person flourished, especially when the exact birth and death dates are unknown. Abbreviation: fl., flor.
- flotage — an act of floating.
- flotant — (in heraldry) flying in the air
- flotels — Plural form of flotel.
- flotsam — the part of the wreckage of a ship and its cargo found floating on the water. Compare jetsam, lagan.
- flotson — Dated form of flotsam.
- flouted — Simple past tense and past participle of flout.
- flouter — A person who flouts.
- floweth — (archaic) Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flow.
- fly out — to move through the air using wings.
- flyboat — a small, fast boat.