11-letter words containing a, f, s
- festinating — hurried.
- festination — a gait marked by an involuntary hurrying in walking, observed in certain nerve diseases.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
- fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- financials' — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
- fire master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
- fire raiser — a person who deliberately sets fire to property
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
- firestarter — One who starts fires.
- first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first cause — God.
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
- first-class — of the highest or best class or quality: a first-class movie.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- fishtailing — Present participle of fishtail.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- fissiparism — (biology) reproduction by spontaneous fission.