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11-letter words containing f, a, n, l, e

  • funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
  • 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.
  • furtwangler — Wilhelm [vil-helm] /ˈvɪl hɛlm/ (Show IPA), 1886–1954, German orchestral conductor.
  • gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
  • garden flat — a flat with direct access to a garden: typically, a garden flat consists of basement accommodation in prewar property, but some are in purpose-built blocks in urban areas
  • gladfulness — The quality of being gladful.
  • glens falls — a city in E New York, on the Hudson River.
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • golden calf — a golden idol set up by Aaron and worshiped by the Israelites. Ex. 32.
  • gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
  • green flash — a green coloration of the upper portion of the sun, caused by atmospheric refraction and occasionally seen as the sun rises above or sinks below the horizon.
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
  • half an ear — If you listen to something or someone with only half an ear, you do not give your full attention to what is being said.
  • half an eye — a modicum of perceptiveness
  • 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 nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
  • half-broken — past participle of break.
  • half-frozen — extremely cold
  • half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
  • half-hunter — a watch with a hinged lid in which a small circular opening or crystal allows the approximate time to be read
  • half-length — something that is only half a full length or height, especially a portrait that shows only the upper half of the body, including the hands.
  • half-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-nelson — a hold in which a wrestler, from behind the opponent, passes one arm under the corresponding arm of the opponent and locks the hand on the back of the opponent's neck.
  • half-ruinedruins, 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-second — 1/120 of a minute of time
  • halfendeale — a half portion of something
  • halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
  • hang a left — to fasten or attach (a thing) so that it is supported only from above or at a point near its own top; suspend.
  • harmfulness — causing or capable of causing harm; injurious: a harmful idea; a harmful habit.
  • hatefulness — arousing hate or deserving to be hated: the hateful oppression of dictators.
  • hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • in place of — instead of, replacing
  • increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
  • indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
  • indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
  • indian file — in single file.
  • ineffectual — not effectual; without satisfactory or decisive effect: an ineffectual remedy.
  • infantilize — to keep in or reduce to an infantile state.
  • infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
  • inferential — of, pertaining to, by, or dependent upon inference.
  • infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
  • infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
  • infiltrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infiltrate.
  • inflammable — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
  • inflammated — (nonstandard) Inflamed.
  • inflatables — Plural form of inflatable.
  • inflectable — (linguistics) That can be inflected.
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