11-letter words containing c, l, e, f
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- 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.
- fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fieldpieces — Plural form of fieldpiece.
- 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.
- 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.
- fleece-vine — silver-lace vine.
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flexecutive — an executive to whom the employer allows flexibility about times and locations of working
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- flick knife — switchblade.
- flick-knife — switchblade.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- 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.
- flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- flocculence — The condition of being flocculent; wooliness, flakiness.
- flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
- floor price — a minimum price required of an item being auctioned.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- florescence — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- fluconazole — An antifungal drug used especially against Candida.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fluid ounce — a measure of capacity equal to 1/16 (0.0625) pint (29.6 milliliters) in the U.S., and equal to 1/20 (0.05) of an imperial pint (28.4 milliliters) in Great Britain. Symbol: f. Abbreviation: fl. oz;
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.