11-letter words containing d, i, s, f, r
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- 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.
- 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.
- first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- 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.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- 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.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
- foodservice — The business of providing food and related services.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footsoldier — Alternative spelling of foot soldier.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foredestine — (rare) predestine.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- freudianism — of or relating to Sigmund Freud or his doctrines, especially with respect to the causes and treatment of neurotic and psychopathic states, the interpretation of dreams, etc.
- friendliest — Superlative form of friendly.
- friendships — Plural form of friendship.
- friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
- fringillids — Plural form of fringillid.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fund-raiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
- fundraisers — Plural form of fundraiser.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- ground-fish — bottom-fish.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- humidifiers — Plural form of humidifier.
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- identifiers — Plural form of identifier.
- idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
- infraorders — Misspelling of infra-orders.