11-letter words containing f, a, r, d, s
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- flusterated — flustered; agitated.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- food shares — investment shares in food companies
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- foreshadows — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreshadow.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forestalled — Simple past tense and past participle of forestall.
- forestlands — Plural form of forestland.
- forwardmost — all the way at the front; first.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- four-masted — carrying four masts.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- fraud squad — law: police department
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- freeloaders — Plural form of freeloader.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- fresh-faced — having a healthy or ruddy appearance
- 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.
- frowardness — The quality of being froward.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fund-raiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
- fundraisers — Plural form of fundraiser.
- fundraising — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fuss around — to engage in idle, aimless, or annoying activity
- godforsaken — desolate; remote; deserted: They live in some godforsaken place 40 miles from the nearest town.
- grand falls — former name of Churchill Falls.
- grand forks — a town in E North Dakota.
- handicrafts — Plural form of handicraft.
- hard-fisted — stingy; miserly; closefisted.
- horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
- 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
- infraorders — Misspelling of infra-orders.
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- microfarads — Plural form of microfarad.