9-letter words containing u, t, f
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- fastigium — the highest point of a fever or disease; the period of greatest development of an infection.
- fat mouse — any nocturnal African mouse of the genus Steatomys, of dry regions: eaten as a delicacy by Africans because of their high fat content: family Muridae
- fatefully — having momentous significance or consequences; decisively important; portentous: a fateful meeting between the leaders of the two countries.
- fatiguing — weariness from bodily or mental exertion.
- fatten up — To fatten up an animal or person means to make them fatter, by forcing or encouraging them to eat more food.
- fatuities — Plural form of fatuity.
- fatuitous — complacently stupid; foolish.
- fatuously — With smug stupidity or vacuous silliness; idiotically.
- faultless — without fault, flaw, or defect; perfect.
- faultline — the surface of a fault fracture along which the rocks have been displaced
- faunistic — of or relating to the geographical distribution of animal life.
- favourite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- featurely — having strongly defined features or characteristics, handsome
- featuring — a prominent or conspicuous part or characteristic: Tall buildings were a new feature on the skyline.
- fecundate — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fecundity — the quality of being fecund; capacity, especially in female animals, of producing young in great numbers.
- feedstuff — feed (def 13).
- festucine — (obsolete) Of a straw colour; greenish-yellow.
- fettucine — Misspelling of fettuccine.
- feudalist — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudality — the state or quality of being feudal.
- feudatory — a person who holds lands by feudal tenure; a feudal vassal.
- feuillant — a member of a club formed in 1791 by Lafayette advocating a limited constitutional monarchy: forced to disband in 1792 as the revolution became more violent and antimonarchical
- feuilleté — puff pastry
- fight out — If two people or groups fight something out, they fight or argue until one of them wins.
- figurante — a ballerina who does not perform solo.
- figurants — Plural form of figurant.
- filatures — Plural form of filature.
- final cut — the final edited version of a film, approved by the director and producer.
- fine tune — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- fine-tune — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- finetuned — to tune (a radio or television receiver) to produce the optimum reception for the desired station or channel by adjusting a control knob or bar.
- fioritura — the ornamentation of a melody, often extemporized by the performer, as in Italian opera during the 18th century.
- firetruck — (US) A vehicle equipped with fire fighting apparatus.
- firmicute — Any bacterium of the phylum Firmicutes.
- first run — the initial exhibition period for a film.
- first-run — designating or of:
- fist bump — a gesture of greeting, friendship, triumph, etc., in which two people make a fist and bump each other's knuckles.
- fist pump — a gesture of enthusiasm, victory, etc., in which one raises a fist and thrusts the forearm quickly and forcefully forward or downward.
- fisticuff — a cuff or blow with the fist.
- fistulate — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- fistulize — Pathology. to form a fistula.
- fistulose — Formed like a fistula; hollow; reed-like.
- fistulous — Pathology. pertaining to or resembling a fistula.
- fitchburg — a city in N Massachusetts.
- flag smut — a disease of cereals and other grasses, characterized by stripes of black spores on the affected leaves and stems, which later dry up and become shredded, caused by several smut fungi of the genus Urocystis.
- flagitous — (archaic) wicked, reprehensible.
- flak suit — a suit of two or more padded armored garments designed to protect the body from shrapnel.
- flake out — flake out, Slang. to fall asleep; take a nap.