11-letter words containing y, e, t
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- faithlessly — In a faithless manner.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- 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
- 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.
- field study — observation of nature in the wild
- fifteenthly — in the fifteenth place or position
- fifty-eight — a cardinal number, 50 plus 8.
- fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
- fifty-three — a cardinal number, 50 plus 3.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- 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.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flatulently — In a flatulent manner or fashion.
- flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- 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.
- fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
- 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.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
- forepayment — prepayment
- forgetfully — In a forgetful manner.
- fortunately — having good fortune; receiving good from uncertain or unexpected sources; lucky: a fortunate young actor who got the lead in the play.
- forty-eight — a cardinal number, 40 plus 8.
- forty-niner — a person, especially a prospector, who went to California in 1849 during the gold rush.
- forty-seven — a cardinal number, 40 plus 7.
- forty-three — a cardinal number, 40 plus 3.
- foster city — a city in W California.
- fosteringly — In a way that fosters or encourages.
- 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.
- 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.
- freebootery — the practices of a freebooter
- freestyling — the practice of improvising scenes when making a film or performing a play
- front money — money paid in advance, as for goods or services, to a commission agent or the like.
- frontlessly — in a frontless or shameless manner