11-letter words containing a, t, f, r
- 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.
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- fissiparity — (biology) The quality of being fissiparous.
- fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flat racing — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- flatterable — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- flea market — a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- flocculator — to form into flocculent masses.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- 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
- 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.
- flusterated — flustered; agitated.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- focal ratio — f-number.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- foot patrol — an assigned or habitual round or route, as of a police officer or sentry
- foot warmer — any of various devices, as a small stove, for keeping one's feet warm.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- footdragger — One who deliberately delays obligatory action.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- for a start — to begin with, in the first place
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- for want of — If you do something for want of something else, you do it because the other thing is not available or not possible.
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds