11-letter words containing fa
- farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
- farraginous — heterogeneous; mixed: a farraginous collection of random ideas.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- fart around — a flatus expelled through the anus.
- farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fasciculate — arranged in a fascicle or fascicles.
- fascinating — of great interest or attraction; enchanting; charming; captivating: a fascinating story; fascinating jewelry.
- fascination — the power or action of fascinating.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fasciolosis — Alternative form of fascioliasis.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionista — a very fashionable person, especially one who works in the fashion industry.
- fashionless — Not fashioned or contrived; natural.
- fast asleep — sleeping deeply
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fast casual — a style of fast food involving healthier, fresher, and more varied dishes than traditional fast food, served in more attractive surroundings
- fast motion — action that appears to move faster than normal on the screen, accomplished by filming the action at less than normal speed in the camera and then projecting it at normal speed.
- fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
- fast-acting — which takes effect quickly
- fast-action — taking effect quickly
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- fast-moving — moving or capable of moving at high speed.
- fast-twitch — of or relating to muscle fiber that contracts relatively rapidly, utilized especially in actions requiring maximum effort of short duration, as sprinting (distinguished from slow-twitch).
- fastigiated — Alternative form of fastigiate.
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- fatal error — (programming, operating system) Any error which causes abrupt termination of the program. The program may be terminated either by itself or by the operating system (a "fatal exception"). In the former instance, the program contains code which catches the error and, as a result, returns to the operating system or calls an operating system service to terminate the program.
- fatefulness — The quality of being fateful.
- fatheadedly — in a fatheaded manner
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fatiguingly — In a fatiguing manner.
- fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
- fatty tumor — lipoma.
- fatuousness — The characteristic of being fatuous.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- fault plane — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- fault scarp — scarp (def 1).
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- faultlessly — In a faultless manner.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- fax machine — facsimile machine
- fax over ip — (communications) (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP.
- fianna fail — a political party in Ireland, organized in 1927 by Eamon De Valera, that was one of the leading parties in the establishment of the Irish republic.
- fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes