11-letter words containing t, a, i, l, o, f
- focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
- focal ratio — f-number.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footballist — Lb dated A football player.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- forficulate — resembling scissors
- formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
- formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
- formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formational — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- fractionlet — a small piece
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- host family — family one lodges with
- infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- la fontaine — Henri [French ahn-ree] /French ɑ̃ˈri/ (Show IPA), 1854–1943, Belgian statesman: Nobel Peace Prize 1913.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactifluous — full or flowing with milk
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- lactoflavin — riboflavin.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- malefaction — an evil deed; crime; wrongdoing.
- malfunction — failure to function properly: a malfunction of the liver; the malfunction of a rocket.
- multifactor — Of or pertaining to more than one factor.
- multifloral — Of or relating to more than one (variety of) flower.
- multifocals — multifocal spectacles
- multiformat — Accessible in more than one format.
- myofilament — a threadlike filament of actin or myosin that is a component of a myofibril.
- nonfatality — An incident that is not a fatality.
- nonfloating — Not floating (in any sense).
- of all time — If you say that someone or something is, for example, the best writer of all time, or the most successful film of all time, you mean that they are the best or most successful that there has ever been.
- of that ilk — of the place of the same name: used to indicate that the person named is proprietor or laird of the place named
- olfactories — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.
- olfactorily — of or relating to the sense of smell: olfactory organs.