7-Letter Words Containing: A,F,T,E,R

• a method of athletic training (especially for runners) in which strenuous effort and normal effort alternate in a continuous exercise

• branching, hair-like structure that grows on the bodies of birds

• turning an oar parallel to the water between pulls

• join tongue and groove, in carpentry

• cover or fit with feathers

• turn the paddle; in canoeing

• turn the oar, while rowing

• grow feathers

• to or at a greater extent or degree or a more advanced stage (`further' is used more often than `farther' in this abstract sense)

• to or at a greater distance in time or space (`farther' is used more frequently than `further' in this physical sense)

• more distant in especially space or time

• more distant in especially degree

• an employee who is a member of a staff of workers (especially a member of the staff that works for the President of the United States)

• a male parent (also used as a term of address to your father)

• `Father' is a term of address for priests in some churches (especially the Roman Catholic Church or the Orthodox Catholic Church); `Padre' is frequently used in the military

• the founder of a family

• (Christianity) any of about 70 theologians in the period from the 2nd to the 7th century whose writing established and confirmed official church doctrine; in the Roman Catholic Church some were later declared saints and became Doctor of the Church; the best known Latin Church Fathers are Ambrose, Augustine, Gregory the Great, and Jerome; those who wrote in Greek include Athanasius, Basil, Gregory Nazianzen, and John Chrysostom

• God when considered as the first person in the Trinity

• a person who holds an important or distinguished position in some organization

• a person who founds or establishes some institution

• the head of an organized crime family

• make (offspring) by reproduction

• the skilled practice of a practical occupation

• a vehicle designed for navigation in or on water or air or through outer space

• people who perform a particular kind of skilled work

• skill in an occupation or trade

• shrewdness as demonstrated by being skilled in deception

• make by hand and with much skill

• fine-toothed power saw with a narrow blade; used to cut curved outlines

• the act of signaling by a movement of the hand