11-letter words containing f, a, r, s
- 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 farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- fissiparism — (biology) reproduction by spontaneous fission.
- fissiparity — (biology) The quality of being fissiparous.
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- 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.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- flusterated — flustered; agitated.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- 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.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- for a start — to begin with, in the first place
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.