11-letter words containing y, a, t
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- family unit — a social group traditionally consisting of parents and children
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- fanatically — motivated or characterized by an extreme, uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
- fancy pants — Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
- fancy-pants — Slang. fancy or snobbish; foppish; dandified.
- fantasticly — Obsolete form of fantastically.
- fantasyland — a place or circumstance existing only in the imagination or as an ideal; dream world.
- farcicality — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
- fatheadedly — in a fatheaded manner
- fatiguingly — In a fatiguing manner.
- fatty tumor — lipoma.
- faultlessly — In a faultless manner.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- 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.
- festinately — hurried.
- fictionally — In a fictional manner.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- findability — (information science) The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- fissiparity — (biology) The quality of being fissiparous.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- flatulently — In a flatulent manner or fashion.
- flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- 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.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- forepayment — prepayment
- formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
- fornicatory — Of or pertaining to fornication.
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- 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.
- frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- 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.
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- ftp by mail — A service offered by DEC to allow people without Internet access to get copies of files which are available by anonymous FTP. Send a message with just the word "help" in the body to <[email protected]>.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
- galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- 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.
- gametically — in a gametic manner
- gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.