11-letter words containing a, f, o, u
- douglas fir — a coniferous tree, Pseudotsuga menziesii, of western North America, often more than 200 feet (60 meters) high, having reddish-brown bark, flattened needles, and narrow, light-brown cones, and yielding a strong, durable timber: the state tree of Oregon.
- drag out of — to obtain or extract (a confession, statement, etc), esp by force
- duffel coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- duffle coat — a hooded overcoat of sturdy wool, usually knee-length and with frog fasteners.
- efficacious — capable of having the desired result or effect; effective as a means, measure, remedy, etc.: The medicine is efficacious in stopping a cough.
- entomofauna — the insect life of a region
- fabulicious — (slang) Exceptionally fabulous and appealing.
- facetiously — not meant to be taken seriously or literally: a facetious remark.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- falling-out — a quarrel or estrangement between persons formerly in close association with one another.
- family hour — any broadcast period from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when programs of general interest to the family are broadcast.
- fantabulous — extremely fine or desirable; excellent; wonderful.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- 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.
- fart around — a flatus expelled through the anus.
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
- fatty tumor — lipoma.
- fatuousness — The characteristic of being fatuous.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- 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.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- flatten out — to make or become flat or flatter by spreading out
- flatulation — to expel intestinal gas through the anus.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- flocculator — to form into flocculent masses.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fluconazole — An antifungal drug used especially against Candida.
- fluctuation — continual change from one point or condition to another.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action