11-letter words containing f, a, i, r, e
- free-to-air — Free-to-air television programmes and channels do not require a subscription or payment.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- freemartins — Plural form of freemartin.
- freight car — any car for carrying freight.
- 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.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- fringe area — an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.
- fritterware — An excess of capability that serves no productive end. The canonical example is font-diddling software on the Mac (see macdink); the term describes anything that eats huge amounts of time for quite marginal gains in function but seduces people into using it anyway. See also window shopping.
- frustrative — That which frustrates (causes frustration).
- ftp archive — archive site
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- fund-raiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
- fundraisers — Plural form of fundraiser.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- fur brigade — (formerly) a convoy of canoes, horses, or dog sleighs that transported furs and other goods between trading posts and towns or factories
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- gaff-rigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- gas fixture — a heating or lighting fixture that uses gas
- giftwrapped — wrapped attractively in pretty paper, perhaps with ribbons or other decorations
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- graniferous — bearing grain
- grapefruits — Plural form of grapefruit.
- grapefruity — Resembling or characteristic of grapefruit.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- gravity-fed — the supplying of fuel, materials, etc., by force of gravity.
- guaniferous — yielding guano
- hairy-faced — having a face covered with hair.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half relief — mezzo-relievo.
- half sister — sister (def 2).
- half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
- half-circle — one half of a circle
- half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
- half-sister — sister (def 2).
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- harvestfish — a butterfish of the genus Peprilus, especially P. alepidotus of Atlantic waters.
- hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
- hill farmer — a farmer on a hill farm
- id software — (games) Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
- 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
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.