11-letter words containing r, e, t, y
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
- feather key — a rectangular key connecting the keyways of a shaft and a hub of a gear, pulley, etc., fastened in one keyway and free to slide in the other so that the hub can drive or be driven by the shaft at various positions along it.
- feature key — (hardware) (Or "flower", "pretzel", "clover", "propeller", "beanie" (from propeller beanie), splat, "command key") The Macintosh modifier key with the four-leaf clover graphic on its keytop. The feature key is the Mac's equivalent of a control key (and so labelled on some Mac II keyboards). The proliferation of terms for this creature may illustrate one subtle peril of iconic interfaces. Macs also have an "Option" modifier key, equivalent to Alt. The cloverleaf-like symbol's oldest name is "cross of St. Hannes", but it occurs in pre-Christian Viking art as a decorative motif. In Scandinavia it marks sites of historical interest. An early Macintosh developer who happened to be Swedish introduced it to Apple. Apple documentation gives the translation "interesting feature". The symbol has a Unicode character called "PLACE OF INTEREST SIGN" (U+2318), previously known as "command key". The Swedish name of this symbol stands for the word "sev"ardhet" (interesting feature), many of which are old churches. Some Swedes report as an idiom for it the word "kyrka", cognate to English "church" and Scots-dialect "kirk" but pronounced /shir'k*/ in modern Swedish. Others say this is nonsense.
- fifty-three — a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- flusteredly — In a flustered manner.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- forepayment — prepayment
- forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- forty-eight — a cardinal number, 40 plus 8.
- forty-niner — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-seven — a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
- forty-three — a cardinal number, 40 plus 3.
- foster city — a city in W California.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- fragmentary — consisting of or reduced to fragments; broken; disconnected; incomplete: fragmentary evidence; fragmentary remains.
- frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
- fraternally — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- free safety — a member of a secondary, usually the deepest-playing defender, with no specific assignment at the snap of the ball, but often covering the area of the field across from the weak side of the opponent's offensive line against runs and long pass plays.
- freebootery — the practices of a freebooter
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- front money — money paid in advance, as for goods or services, to a commission agent or the like.
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
- fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
- game theory — a mathematical theory that deals with strategies for maximizing gains and minimizing losses within prescribed constraints, as the rules of a card game: widely applied in the solution of various decision-making problems, as those of military strategy and business policy.
- garden city — a city in SE Michigan, near Detroit.
- gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
- gate theory — a theory proposing that neural stimulation beyond a certain threshold level, as by application of an electric current, can overwhelm the ability of the nerve center to sense pain.
- gay-feather — any of several composite plants of the genus Liatris, especially L. spicata or L. scariosa, having hairy leaves and long clusters of purplish flowers.
- gentrifying — Present participle of gentrify.
- geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
- germ theory — Pathology. the theory that infectious diseases are due to the agency of germs or microorganisms.
- gerontology — the branch of science that deals with aging and the problems of aged persons.
- getaway car — an automobile used by criminals in order to leave the scene of a crime quickly
- glycerinate — to impregnate with glycerin.
- governmenty — pompous.
- granulocyte — a circulating white blood cell having prominent granules in the cytoplasm and a nucleus of two or more lobes.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- gray market — a market operating within the law but charging prices substantially below list prices or those fixed by an official agency.