11-letter words containing f, a, r, i
- fragilities — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fragmenting — a part broken off or detached: scattered fragments of the broken vase.
- fragmentise — Alternative form of fragmentize.
- fragmentize — to break (something) into fragments; break (something) apart.
- franchisees — Plural form of franchisee.
- franchisers — Plural form of franchiser.
- franchising — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- franciscans — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- francomania — an obsession with France or French things
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- frangipanis — Plural form of frangipani.
- frangipanni — Archaic form of frangipani.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- 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.
- frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- franticness — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
- frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
- fraternises — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraternise.
- fraternized — Simple past tense and past participle of fraternize.
- fraternizer — A person who fraternizes.
- fraternizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fraternize.
- fratricidal — a person who kills his or her brother.
- fratricides — Plural form of fratricide.
- freddie mac — Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation.
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- 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.
- friar minor — a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis. Compare capuchin (def 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- frigidarium — (in an ancient Roman bath) a room having a bath of unheated water.
- fringe area — an area just beyond the outer limits of satisfactory reception, characterized by a weak and possibly unstable signal.
- fritillaria — any liliaceous plant of the genus Fritillaria, comprising bulbous herbs having drooping, bell-shaped flowers.
- 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.
- fructuation — the process of producing fruit
- fruit ranch — a farm where fruit is the main produce.
- fruit salad — a cold dish consisting of various types of small or cut-up fruit, usually served as a dessert or first course.
- fruit salts — salts of citric acid, used to relieve bloating and neutralize stomach acidity. Also used in cooking.
- fruit stall — a market stall that sells a variety of edible fruits
- fruit sugar — fructose.
- fruitarians — Plural form of fruitarian.
- frustrating — to make (plans, efforts, etc.) worthless or of no avail; defeat; nullify: The student's indifference frustrated the teacher's efforts to help him.
- frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.