These are the meanings of the letters UFALTO when you unscramble them.
- Afoul (adv. & a.)
In collision; entangled.
- Aloft (adv.)
In the top; at the mast head, or on the higher yards or rigging; overhead; hence (Fig. and Colloq.), in or to heaven.
- Aloft (adv.)
On high; in the air; high above the ground.
- Aloft (prep.)
Above; on top of.
- Fault (n.)
A dislocation of the strata of the vein.
- Fault (n.)
A lost scent; act of losing the scent.
- Fault (n.)
A moral failing; a defect or dereliction from duty; a deviation from propriety; an offense less serious than a crime.
- Fault (n.)
Anything that fails, that is wanting, or that impairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish.
- Fault (n.)
Defect; want; lack; default.
- Fault (n.)
Failure to serve the ball into the proper court.
- Fault (n.)
In coal seams, coal rendered worthless by impurities in the seam; as, slate fault, dirt fault, etc.
- Fault (v. i.)
To err; to blunder, to commit a fault; to do wrong.
- Fault (v. t.)
To charge with a fault; to accuse; to find fault with; to blame.
- Fault (v. t.)
To interrupt the continuity of (rock strata) by displacement along a plane of fracture; -- chiefly used in the p. p.; as, the coal beds are badly faulted.
- Float (n.)
To move quietly or gently on the water, as a raft; to drift along; to move or glide without effort or impulse on the surface of a fluid, or through the air.
- Float (n.)
To rest on the surface of any fluid; to swim; to be buoyed up.
- Float (v. i.)
A coal cart.
- Float (v. i.)
A contrivance for affording a copious stream of water to the heated surface of an object of large bulk, as an anvil or die.
- Float (v. i.)
A float board. See Float board (below).
- Float (v. i.)
A mass of timber or boards fastened together, and conveyed down a stream by the current; a raft.
- Float (v. i.)
A polishing block used in marble working; a runner.
- Float (v. i.)
A quantity of earth, eighteen feet square and one foot deep.
- Float (v. i.)
A single-cut file for smoothing; a tool used by shoemakers for rasping off pegs inside a shoe.
- Float (v. i.)
Anything used to buoy up whatever is liable to sink; an inflated bag or pillow used by persons learning to swim; a life preserver.
- Float (v. i.)
Anything which floats or rests on the surface of a fluid, as to sustain weight, or to indicate the height of the surface, or mark the place of, something.
- Float (v. i.)
The act of flowing; flux; flow.
- Float (v. i.)
The cork or quill used in angling, to support the bait line, and indicate the bite of a fish.
- Float (v. i.)
The hollow, metallic ball of a self-acting faucet, which floats upon the water in a cistern or boiler.
- Float (v. i.)
The sea; a wave. See Flote, n.
- Float (v. i.)
The trowel or tool with which the floated coat of plastering is leveled and smoothed.
- Float (v. t.)
To cause to float; to cause to rest or move on the surface of a fluid; as, the tide floated the ship into the harbor.
- Float (v. t.)
To flood; to overflow; to cover with water.
- Float (v. t.)
To pass over and level the surface of with a float while the plastering is kept wet.
- Float (v. t.)
To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable it to go into, or continue in, operation.
- Flota (n.)
A fleet; especially, a /eet of Spanish ships which formerly sailed every year from Cadiz to Vera Cruz, in Mexico, to transport to Spain the production of Spanish America.
- Flout (n.)
A mock; an insult.
- Flout (v. i.)
To practice mocking; to behave with contempt; to sneer; to fleer; -- often with at.
- Flout (v. t.)
To mock or insult; to treat with contempt.