11-letter words containing r, a, f, e, t
- soft-soaper — a person who flatters or cajoles, especially for reasons of self-interest or personal advantage: a soft-soaper specializing in rich, elderly women.
- softhearted — very sympathetic or responsive; generous in spirit: a soft-hearted judge.
- software ag — (company) A German software engineering company that started with the ADABAS database. Natural is their 4GL development environment, EntireX is their DCOM for Unix and IBM. BOLERO, is an object-oriented development environment and application server specially made for Electronic Business applications. Mailing-list: <[email protected]>.
- speechcraft — the art of rhetoric
- square foot — a unit of area measurement equal to a square measuring one foot on each side; 0.0929 square meters. 2 , sq. ft. Abbreviation: ft.
- staff nurse — nurse who works on a ward
- steamfitter — a highly skilled person who installs and repairs pipes for air conditioning, ventilation, refrigeration, and heating systems
- still frame — continuous display of a single frame of a film or of a single picture from a television signal
- strawflower — any of several everlasting flowers, especially an Australian composite plant, Helichrysum bracteatum, having heads of chaffy yellow, orange, red, or white flowers.
- stream feed — (on a photocopier, printer) a continuous supply of paper
- suffragette — a woman advocate of female suffrage.
- superfatted — (of soap) containing excess fat that has not been converted into soap by saponification
- supersafety — the state of being supersafe
- tailleferre — Germaine, 1892–1983, French composer.
- take fright — be scared off
- tamperproof — that cannot be tampered with; impervious to tampering: a tamper-proof lock.
- tanniferous — containing much tannin; yielding tannin.
- tariff line — an item listed in a country's tariff schedule
- tea infuser — mesh ball for straining tea leaves
- telefeature — a major dramatic television film, usually of a length comparable to a theatrical feature film.
- term of art — a word or phrase that has a specific or precise meaning within a given discipline or field and might have a different meaning in common usage: Set is a term of art used by mathematicians, and burden of proof is a term of art used by lawyers.
- terra firma — firm or solid earth; dry land (as opposed to water or air).
- texas fever — babesiosis of cattle.
- the giraffe — the constellation Camelopardalis
- the welfare — the public agencies involved with giving such assistance
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
- tort-feasor — a person who commits a tort.
- tractorfeed — Computers. a mechanism for aligning and transporting paper for a printer by means of pins that catch in perforations along the edges of the paper.
- trafficable — that can be traveled upon: a trafficable road.
- train ferry — a ship designed to carry railway vehicles
- transferase — any of the class of enzymes, as the transaminases that catalyze the transfer of an organic group from one compound to another.
- transferral — transference; transfer.
- transferred — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transferrin — a plasma glycoprotein that transports dietary iron to the liver, spleen, and bone marrow.
- transfigure — to change in outward form or appearance; transform.
- transfinite — going beyond or surpassing the finite.
- transformed — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- transformer — a person or thing that transforms.
- trapeziform — formed like a trapezium.
- travel film — a filmed documentary showing travel in a certain country or region
- ultrafilter — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
- unfaltering — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- unfavourite — not favourite or favoured
- unfeathered — clothed, covered, or provided with feathers, as a bird or an arrow.
- unformatted — Computers. pertaining to a disk that has not been electronically prepared to receive files or other text; blank: You cannot save files on an unformatted disk.
- unfortunate — suffering from bad luck: an unfortunate person.
- ungratified — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- unrefracted — (of light, waves, rays, etc) not refracted or deflected
- ventral fin — pelvic fin.