9-letter words containing t, o, a, f
- cofactors — Plural form of cofactor.
- cofeature — a joint feature
- colorfast — A fabric that is colorfast has a color that will not get paler when the fabric is washed or worn.
- confidant — Someone's confidant is a man who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
- conflated — Simple past tense and past participle of conflate.
- conflates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of conflate.
- cowlstaff — a staff or pole used by two people to carry a vessel, sometimes used as a weapon
- craftwork — works of artistry or craft
- data flow — (architecture) A data flow architecture or language performs a computation when all the operands are available. Data flow is one kind of data driven architecture, the other is demand driven. It is a technique for specifying fine-grain concurrency, usually in the form of two-dimensional graphs in which instructions that are available for concurrent execution are written alongside each other while those that must be executed in sequence are written one under the other. Data dependencies between instructions are indicated by directed arcs. Instructions do not reference memory since the data dependence arcs allow data to be transmitted directly from the producing instruction to the consuming one. Data flow schemes differ chiefly in the way that they handle re-entrant code. Static schemes disallow it, dynamic schemes use either "code copying" or "tagging" at every point of reentry. An example of a data flow architecture is MIT's VAL machine.
- data fork — Macintosh file system
- date from — If something dates from a particular time, it started or was made at that time.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- deflation — Deflation is a reduction in economic activity that leads to lower levels of industrial output, employment, investment, trade, profits, and prices.
- deflators — Plural form of deflator.
- deflorate — (of a plant) having lost its flowers
- defoliant — A defoliant is a chemical used on trees and plants to make all their leaves fall off. Defoliants are especially used in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- defoliate — To defoliate an area or the plants in it means to cause the leaves on the plants to fall off or be destroyed. This is done especially in war to remove protection from an enemy.
- downdraft — a downward current, as of air: a downdraft in a mine shaft.
- end float — End float is the amount by which a shaft can move lengthwise.
- exfoliant — A cosmetic product designed to remove dead cells from the surface of the skin.
- exfoliate — (of a material) come apart or be shed from a surface in scales or layers.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- facecloth — washcloth.
- facetious — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factional — of a faction or factions.
- factoidal — of or resembling a factoid; (of a piece of writing) comprising facts and factoids
- factor in — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factor ix — a blood constituent necessary for clotting, the absence of which is characterized by a hemophilialike condition.
- factorage — the action or business of a factor.
- factorial — Mathematics. the product of a given positive integer multiplied by all lesser positive integers: The quantity four factorial (4!) = 4 ⋅ 3 ⋅ 2 ⋅ 1 = 24. Symbol: n!, where n is the given integer.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factoring — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- factorize — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- factotums — (obsolete) Plural form of factotum.
- fadometer — an instrument used to determine the resistance to fading of a pigment or dye
- faggoting — a bundle of sticks, twigs, or branches bound together and used as fuel, a fascine, a torch, etc.
- fagottist — a bassoonist
- fail-soft — pertaining to or noting facilities built into a system, as in an automobile or a computer, for continuing operations on an interim basis and probably with reduced efficiency, if parts of the system fail.
- falcation — the state of being falcate, a falcate appendage
- falconets — Plural form of falconet.
- faldstool — a chair or seat, originally one capable of being folded, used by a bishop or other prelate when officiating in his own church away from his throne or in a church not his own.
- fall into — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- falsettos — Plural form of falsetto.
- famousest — Superlative form of famous.
- far point — the point farthest from the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is completely relaxed.
- far-point — the point farthest from the eye at which an object is clearly focused on the retina when accommodation of the eye is completely relaxed.
- farm-toun — a farmhouse together with its outbuildings
- fast food — junk food
- fast-food — of or specializing in fast food.