11-letter words containing e, i, l, a, n
- extrinsical — (rare) Extrinsic.
- facelifting — Present participle of facelift.
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallen idol — If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people's respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- family name — the hereditary surname of a family.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionless — Not fashioned or contrived; natural.
- fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- festinately — hurried.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- filagreeing — Present participle of filagree.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- filter lane — a lane governed by a filter at a traffic light, from which traffic can turn left or right while other traffic is held up by a red light
- 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?
- 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.
- 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.
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- 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.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flannelling — a soft, slightly napped fabric of wool or wool and another fiber, used for trousers, jackets, shirts, etc.
- flat sennit — a rope made of three or more yarns or strands plaited together.
- flea-bitten — bitten by a flea or fleas.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
- franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance