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11-letter words containing e, l, f, i

  • fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
  • fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
  • field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
  • field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
  • field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • 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 guide — a portable illustrated book to help identify birds, plants, rocks, etc., as on a nature walk.
  • field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
  • field judge — an official who makes rulings regarding pass receptions, fair catches, field goals, etc.
  • field label — a descriptive word or phrase for a field in a record, such as 'surname', 'postcode', etc
  • field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • field study — observation of nature in the wild
  • 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.
  • fieldpieces — Plural form of fieldpiece.
  • fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • fifteenthly — in the fifteenth place or position
  • fifth wheel — a horizontal ring or segment of a ring, consisting of two bands that slide on each other, placed above the front axle of a carriage and designed to support the forepart of the body while allowing it to turn freely in a horizontal plane.
  • filagreeing — Present participle of filagree.
  • filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • 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.
  • 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 server — a computer that makes files available to workstations on a network.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • 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.
  • filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
  • filigreeing — Present participle of filigree.
  • filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
  • filled milk — milk containing a substitute for the butterfat.
  • fillet weld — a weld with a triangular cross section joining two surfaces that meet in an interior right angle.
  • fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
  • fillingness — The property of being filling, of making full.
  • film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
  • filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
  • 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
  • filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
  • fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
  • 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.
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
  • finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
  • fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
  • fingerlings — Plural form of fingerling.
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