11-letter words containing c, e, f, a
- 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.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- fasciculate — arranged in a fascicle or fascicles.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fast packet — Asynchronous Transfer Mode
- fax machine — facsimile machine
- feather cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feather-cut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- fecundating — Present participle of fecundate.
- fecundation — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feldspathic — of, relating to, or containing feldspar.
- felicitated — Simple past tense and past participle of felicitate.
- felicitates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of felicitate.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferricyanic — (inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferricyanide.
- ferrocyanic — (inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferrocyanide.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fianchettos — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fianchetto.
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- file attach — [FidoNet] 1. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another. 2. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer.
- film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
- filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
- 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?
- financeable — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
- firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
- first cause — God.
- 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 tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- flak jacket — U.S. Air Force. an armored garment made of steel plates covered by a padded fabric, designed to protect vital parts of the body from shrapnel.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flame color — bright reddish-orange.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- 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-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flea collar — a dog or cat collar impregnated with a chemical for repelling or killing fleas.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.