11-letter words containing e, n, k
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- finger mark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flick knife — switchblade.
- flick-knife — switchblade.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- fork-tender — (of food, especially meat) cooked so that it can be cut or pierced easily with a fork.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frankenfood — (colloquial, derogatory) genetically modified food.
- frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
- frankfurter — Felix, 1882–1965, U.S. jurist, born in Austria: associate justice of the U.S. Supreme Court 1939–62.
- 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.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- franks peak — a mountain in NW Wyoming: highest peak in the Absaroka Range of the Rocky Mountains. 13,153 feet (4009 meters).
- franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
- free-spoken — given to speaking freely or without reserve; frank; outspoken.
- freethinker — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.
- french kiss — kiss with tongues
- french knot — an ornamental stitch made by looping the thread three or four times around the needle before putting it into the fabric
- french-kiss — soul kiss.
- fruit knife — a small knife, usually having a distinctive handle and a stainless steel blade with a sharp or serrated edge, used at table for paring and cutting fruit.
- funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
- funnel cake — a crisp, deep-fried cake, made by pouring batter through a funnel into fat or oil, usually in a spiral shape, and dusted with powdered sugar.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- gamekeeping — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
- garden pink — the plant Dianthus plumarius
- gatekeeping — The activity of controlling, and usually limiting, general access to something.
- gawkishness — awkward; ungainly; clumsy.
- gentlefolks — (nonstandard) gentlefolk.
- give thanks — be thankful, express thankfulness
- glass snake — any limbless, snakelike lizard of the genus Ophisaurus, inhabiting the eastern U.S., Europe, and Asia, having external ear openings and the ability to regenerate its long, fragile tail.
- glucokinase — an enzyme, found in all living systems, that serves to catalyze the phosphorylation of gluconic acid.
- go kerplunk — to make a noise when landing on or hitting the bottom of something
- goalkeeping — The art of a goalkeeper.
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- godlikeness — The quality of being godlike.
- golden buck — a dish consisting of Welsh rabbit topped with a poached egg.
- granitelike — Resembling granite.