11-letter words containing d, i, e, r
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalized — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- federalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of federalize.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- feeder line — a branch of a main transportation line, as of an airline or railroad.
- fender pile — a pile, usually one of a group, set beside ferry slips, wharves, etc., to guide approaching vessels and driven so as to yield slightly when struck in order to lessen the shock of contact.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferdinand i — Spanish Fernando I. ("Ferdinand the Great") died 1065, king of Castile 1033–65, king of Navarre and Leon 1037–65; emperor of Spain 1056–65.
- ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
- field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- file folder — a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.
- file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- fire damage — damage caused to a building or other object by fire
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- 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.
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
- first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- fixed-price — option: with set cost
- 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.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas