11-letter words containing f, a, r
- infusorians — Plural form of infusorian.
- inlay graft — a graft in which the scion is matched into a place in the stock from which a piece of corresponding bark has been removed.
- insufflator — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interfacial — included between two faces.
- interfacing — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- interfamily — a basic social unit consisting of parents and their children, considered as a group, whether dwelling together or not: the traditional family. a social unit consisting of one or more adults together with the children they care for: a single-parent family.
- interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
- intrafamily — Occurring within a family.
- intrafusion — The act of pouring into a vessel.
- intreatfull — full of entreaty
- iris family — the plant family Iridaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having bulbs, corms, or rhizomes, sword-shaped grasslike leaves, and usually showy flowers, and including the blackberry lily, crocus, freesia, gladiolus, and iris.
- irrefutable — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- irrefutably — not capable of being refuted or disproved: irrefutable logic.
- jack rafter — a rafter having less than the full length of the roof slope, as one meeting a hip or a valley.
- jargon file — (jargon, publication, humour) The on-line hacker Jargon File maintained by Eric S. Raymond. A large collection of definitions of computing terms, including much wit, wisdom, and history. See also Yellow Book, Jargon.
- jesus freak — a member of any of several fundamentalist groups of chiefly young people (Jesus people) originating in the early 1970s and emphasizing intense personal devotion to and study of Jesus Christ and His teachings.
- joan of arc — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- joseph raff — Joseph Joachim, 1822–82, Swiss composer.
- juan flores — Juan José [hwahn haw-se] /ʰwɑn hɔˈsɛ/ (Show IPA), 1800–64, Ecuadorian general and statesman: president 1830–35, 1839–45.
- kaffir corn — a Southern African variety of sorghum, cultivated in dry regions for its grain and as fodder
- kaffir lily — clivia.
- kaffir lime — an Asian citrus tree, Citrus hystrix, having green fruit with wrinkly skin and aromatic leaves that are used in Thai and Indonesian cookery.
- kordofanian — a subfamily of Niger-Kordofanian that comprises about 30 languages spoken in southern Kordofan.
- kulturkampf — the conflict between the German imperial government and the Roman Catholic Church from 1872 or 1873 until 1886, chiefly over the control of education and ecclesiastical appointments.
- la fresnaye — Roger de [raw-zhey duh] /rɔˈʒeɪ də/ (Show IPA), 1885–1925, French painter.
- labor force — work force.
- lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
- lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
- ladderproof — unable to ladder; resistant against undoing (of a line of interconnected stitches) as by snagging
- lady friend — female companion
- ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
- lake forest — a city in NE Illinois, N of Chicago, on Lake Michigan.
- lake rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
- lamelliform — shaped like a lamella; platelike; scalelike.
- land freeze — a legal restraint on the sale or transfer of land.
- land reform — any program, especially when undertaken by a national government, involving the redistribution of agricultural land among the landless.
- lantern fly — any of several large tropical insects of the family Fulgoridae, formerly thought to be luminescent.
- lanternfish — any of several small, deep-sea fishes of the family Myctophidae, having rows of luminous organs along each side, certain species of which migrate to the surface at night.
- lapilliform — shaped like a pebble
- laser proof — a print proof of an element of a page printed out on a laser printer, so as to give an almost accurate preview of the final printout
- lassa fever — a highly contagious viral disease, largely confined to central West Africa, characterized by fever, difficulty in swallowing, and inflammation of the pharynx, often progressing to infect the lungs, heart, and kidneys, leading to death.
- leaf peeper — a tourist who visits New England in autumn to see the changing colours of the foliage
- leaf roller — any of several insects, especially moths of the family Tortricidae, the larvae of which form a nest by rolling and tying leaves with spun silk.
- leaf spring — a long, narrow, multiple spring composed of several layers of spring metal bracketed together: used in some suspension systems of carriages and automobiles.
- leaf-hopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leafhoppers — Plural form of leafhopper.
- leafleteers — Plural form of leafleteer.
- leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
- leapfrogger — One who leapfrogs.
- leatherfish — a filefish.