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11-letter words containing y, e, t, s

  • facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
  • fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
  • faithlessly — In a faithless manner.
  • farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
  • faultlessly — In a faultless manner.
  • feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • festinately — hurried.
  • field study — observation of nature in the wild
  • fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
  • 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.
  • forty-seven — a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
  • foster city — a city in W California.
  • fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
  • frame story — a secondary story or stories embedded in the main story.
  • 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.
  • freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
  • frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner
  • fruitlessly — In a fruitless manner.
  • fuel system — The fuel system in a vehicle is the combination of parts needed to carry fuel into and out of the engine.
  • fussbudgety — in the manner of a fussbudget; fussy
  • galley-west — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
  • gametocytes — Plural form of gametocyte.
  • gastrectomy — partial or total excision of the stomach.
  • genioplasty — Mentoplasty.
  • geostrategy — The strategic use of geopolitics.
  • glossectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of all or part of the tongue.
  • glycosylate — (organic chemistry) To react with a sugar to form a glycoside (especially a glycoprotein).
  • gnetophytes — Plural form of gnetophyte.
  • grass style — a style of Japanese calligraphy and sumi-e painting, characterized chiefly by free or loose brush strokes.
  • greedy guts — a glutton
  • green bytes — (jargon)   (Or "green words") Meta-information embedded in a file, such as the length of the file or its name; as opposed to keeping such information in a separate description file or record. By extension, the non-data bits in any self-describing format. "A GIF file contains, among other things, green bytes describing the packing method for the image". At a meeting of the SHARE Systems Division, November 22, 1964, in Washington, DC, George Mealy of IBM described the new block tape format for FORTRAN in which unformatted binary records had a Control Word. George used green chalk to describe it. No one liked the contents of the Green Word (not information, wrong location, etc.) so Conrad Weisert and Channing Jackson made badges saying "Stamp out Green Words". This was the first computer badge. Compare out-of-band, zigamorph, fence.
  • grotesquely — odd or unnatural in shape, appearance, or character; fantastically ugly or absurd; bizarre.
  • grotesquery — grotesque character.
  • guiltlessly — free from guilt; innocent.
  • gynaecomast — a man who suffers from gynaecomastia
  • gynostegium — a specialized caplike mass of tissue covering a gynoecium.
  • gynostemium — the united stamens and pistil of an orchid.
  • haemoptysis — (British spelling) alternative spelling of hemoptysis.
  • haines city — a town in central Florida.
  • hamfistedly — Alternative spelling of ham-fistedly.
  • harvest fly — cicada
  • heartlessly — unfeeling; unkind; unsympathetic; harsh; cruel: heartless words; a heartless ruler.
  • heliophytes — a plant that grows best in full sunlight.
  • hematolysis — hemolysis.
  • hepatocytes — Plural form of hepatocyte.
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