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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
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