10-letter words that end in t
- foot fault — a fault consisting in the failure of the server to keep both feet behind the base line until the ball is hit or to keep at least one foot on the ground while hitting the ball.
- for effect — If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.
- for-profit — (of a business or institution) initiated or operated for the purpose of making a profit: for-profit hospitals.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forlornest — Superlative form of forlorn.
- forthright — going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken: It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- four-a-cat — four old cat.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- free agent — a person who is self-determining and is not responsible for his or her actions to any authority.
- free fight — a fight without rules in which everyone may join
- free sheet — paper made entirely from chemical pulp and therefore free of groundwood.
- freeze out — the act of freezing; state of being frozen.
- freeze-out — the act of freezing; state of being frozen.
- fremescent — rumbling; beginning to roar
- french-cut — sliced lengthwise into long, thin strips.
- frizzliest — Superlative form of frizzly.
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- frog's-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- front foot — a foot measured along the front of a lot.
- front list — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frontcourt — (basketball) The half of the court where a team's offensive basket is located.
- frutescent — tending to be shrublike; shrubby.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- fulfilment — the act or state of fulfilling: to witness the fulfillment of a dream; to achieve fulfillment of one's hopes.
- full blast — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- full twist — a front or back dive made by a complete rotation of the body on its vertical axis. Compare half twist (def 1).
- furtherest — (nonstandard, humorous use only, informal) furthest.
- fussbudget — a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person.
- fustianist — a person who uses pompous or bombastic language
- gabblement — a gabbling noise
- gala night — a variety of performances, songs, etc, shown over one evening
- gallantest — Superlative form of gallant.
- galleywest — Informal. into a state of unconsciousness, confusion, or disarray (usually used in the phrase to knock galley-west).
- game point — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) the point that if won would enable the scorer or the scorer's side to win the game.
- gansevoort — Peter, 1749–1812, U.S. general: soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- gemologist — the science dealing with natural and artificial gemstones.
- genderlect — a type or style of speech used by a particular gender.
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- geneticist — a specialist or expert in genetics.
- geochemist — (chemistry, geology) A chemist or geologist who specializes in geochemistry.
- gestaltist — one who believes in, or practises, Gestalt psychology
- gesundheit — Used to wish good health to a person who has just sneezed.