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11-letter words containing f, a, r, l

  • federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • federalized — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • federalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of federalize.
  • felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
  • fellermelad — (jocular, UK, Ireland, usually with
  • felt marker — a felt pen with a wide nib for making identifying marks, as on clothing.
  • feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
  • fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
  • ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
  • fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
  • fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
  • fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
  • fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
  • field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
  • field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
  • field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
  • filagreeing — Present participle of filagree.
  • filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
  • film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
  • film rating — a rating imposed by the British Board of Film Censors that indicates the minimum age of people allowed to view the film
  • filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
  • filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
  • filter lane — a lane governed by a filter at a traffic light, from which traffic can turn left or right while other traffic is held up by a red light
  • filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
  • fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
  • final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
  • fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
  • fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
  • fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
  • fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
  • fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
  • firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
  • first-class — of the highest or best class or quality: a first-class movie.
  • 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
  • fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
  • fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
  • flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
  • flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
  • flame color — bright reddish-orange.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
  • 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.
  • flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
  • flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
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