11-letter words containing a, l, e, s
- fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of federalize.
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- felicitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felicitate.
- ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
- festinately — hurried.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- 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?
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- 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.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- 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 ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flagellants — a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
- flagellates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flagellate.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flat season — the part of the year during which flat racing takes place
- flat sennit — a rope made of three or more yarns or strands plaited together.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- floatplanes — Plural form of floatplane.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it