11-letter words containing a, n, e, r
- exportation — The act of exporting; the act of conveying or sending commodities abroad or to another country, in the course of commerce.
- expurgating — Present participle of expurgate.
- expurgation — The act of expurgating, purging, or cleansing; purification from anything noxious, offensive, sinful, or erroneous.
- extenuatory — Tending to extenuate or palliate.
- exterminate — Destroy completely.
- externalise — Alternative spelling of externalize.
- externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
- externalist — (epistemology) Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief.
- externality — A side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved, such as the pollination of surrounding crops by bees kept for honey.
- externalize — Give external existence or form to.
- extirpating — Present participle of extirpate.
- extirpation — The act of extirpating or uprooting.
- extra point — conversion (sense 3)
- extractions — Plural form of extraction.
- extraditing — Present participle of extradite.
- extradition — The action of extraditing a person accused or convicted of a crime.
- extravagant — Lacking restraint in spending money or using resources.
- extravagent — Misspelling of extravagant.
- extricating — Present participle of extricate.
- extrication — The act or process of extricating or disentangling; a freeing from perplexities; disentanglement.
- extrinsical — (rare) Extrinsic.
- exuberantly — In an exuberant manner.
- exuberating — Present participle of exuberate.
- face-harden — to harden the surface of (metal), as by chilling or casehardening.
- facinerious — (in the works of Shakespeare) extremely wicked
- fact finder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- fair enough — that is reasonable
- fair-minded — characterized by fair judgment; impartial; unprejudiced: a wise and fair-minded judge.
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fairy green — a medium yellow-green color.
- fairy queen — the queen of the fairies
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- fallen arch — collapse of the arch formed by the instep of the foot, resulting in flat feet
- false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- fan the air — to strike at but fail to hit something
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- far eastern — the countries of E Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and sometimes adjacent areas.
- farawayness — the state of being faraway
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fear-naught — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.