11-letter words containing f, a, l, o, r
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- foul matter — Printing. materials, as manuscript, galleys, or proofs, that have been superseded by revised proofs or galleys or by the bound book, and have been returned to the publisher by the printer.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- fowler flap — a flap normally forming a part of the trailing edge of an airplane wing, capable of being moved backward and rotated downward in order to increase lift through increased camber and wing area.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- fractiously — In a fractious manner.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- free labour — the labour of workers who are not members of trade unions
- freeloaders — Plural form of freeloader.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- french loaf — baguette, long stick of bread
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- front crawl — a style of swimming in which the swimmer faces downwards and moves their arms alternately in strokes
- front royal — a town in N Virginia.
- frontloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of frontload.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- go bail for — to furnish bail for
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- half dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- half-dollar — a silver or cupronickel coin of the U.S., equal to 50 cents.
- half-formed — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- half-frozen — extremely cold
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- holy father — a title of the pope.
- honorifical — honorific
- ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
- infiltrator — to filter into or through; permeate.
- infomercial — a long commercial that informs or instructs, especially in an original and entertaining manner: an infomercial on making Christmas decorations using the sponsor's brand of glue.
- informality — the state of being informal; absence of formality.
- infracostal — (anatomy) Below the ribs.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- labor force — work force.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- ladderproof — unable to ladder; resistant against undoing (of a line of interconnected stitches) as by snagging
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- lamelliform — shaped like a lamella; platelike; scalelike.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lapilliform — shaped like a pebble
- laser proof — a print proof of an element of a page printed out on a laser printer, so as to give an almost accurate preview of the final printout
- leaf roller — any of several insects, especially moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which form a nest by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk.
- leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.