11-letter words containing f, a, r
- rule of law — the principle that all people and institutions are subject to and accountable to law that is fairly applied and enforced; the principle of government by law.
- run a fever — have a high temperature
- rush family — the plant family Juncaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having narrow, grasslike leaves, small and greenish flowers, and capsular fruit with three compartments, comprising the true rushes.
- sacculiform — (of plant parts, etc) shaped like a small sac
- sacrificial — pertaining to or concerned with sacrifice.
- saddle roof — curved covering for a building
- safari park — a parklike zoo in which wild animals are allowed to roam free in an environment designed to resemble their natural habitat and are observed by visitors riding through the park in cars or buses; animal park.
- safari suit — a suit consisting of a bush jacket and matching trousers.
- safe harbor — a harbor considered safe for a ship, as in wartime or during a storm at sea.
- safe period — an interval of the menstrual cycle when fertilization is considered to be least likely, usually a number of days prior and subsequent to the onset of menstruation.
- safe-blower — a person who uses explosives to open safes and rob them
- safecracker — a person who breaks open safes to rob them.
- sales force — team of salespeople
- salmon farm — an enclosed area of water devoted to the rearing of salmon for food
- satinflower — a Californian plant, Clarkia amoena, of the evening primrose family, having cup-shaped pink or purplish flowers blotched with red.
- scalariform — ladderlike.
- scalpriform — chisel-shaped, as the incisors of certain rodents.
- scarf cloud — pileus (def 3).
- scarf joint — a joint in which two timbers or other structural members are fitted together with long end laps of various forms and held in place with bolts, straps, keys, fishplates, etc., to resist tension or compression.
- schoolcraft — Henry Rowe [roh] /roʊ/ (Show IPA), 1793–1864, U.S. explorer, ethnologist, and author.
- schwarzkopf — Elisabeth, 1915–2006, German soprano, born in Poland.
- screencraft — the skills and talent involved in writing or making a movie
- scuff marks — marks made by scuffing
- sea feather — any of several anthozoans of the order Gorgonacea, in which the colony assumes a featherlike shape.
- sefer torah — Sepher Torah.
- self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
- self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
- self-mailer — an advertisement, booklet, or the like, that has space for a name, address, and postage and can be mailed without a wrapper or envelope.
- self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
- self-praise — the act of expressing approval or admiration; commendation; laudation.
- self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
- self-slayer — one who kills oneself.
- septifragal — (of a capsule) dehiscing by breaking away from the partitions but remaining attached to the common axis; dehiscing at the valves or backs of the carpels but leaving the septa intact.
- server farm — a collection of computer servers (usually in a business, organization, etc) used to accomplish tasks for which multiple machines are needed
- set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
- severalfold — comprising several parts or members.
- sewage farm — a place where sewage is treated, esp for use as manure
- shaft grave — a grave consisting of a deep, rectangular pit with vertical sides, roofed over with a stone slab.
- shaftesbury — Anthony Ashley Cooper, 1st Earl of, 1621–83, English statesman.
- share draft — an interest-bearing checking account in a credit union.
- sharefarmer — a farmer who pays a fee to another in return for use of land to raise crops, etc
- shear force — Shear force is force that makes one surface of a substance move over another parallel surface.
- shelf paper — paper used for covering shelves, especially those of a cupboard or kitchen cabinet.
- shelftalker — a promotional sign used by a retailer to draw attention to a featured product on the shelf
- sheriffalty — shrievalty.
- shift gears — change speed manually in a vehicle
- ship of war — warship.
- sight draft — a draft payable upon presentation.
- silver leaf — silver in the form of very thin foil.
- slant front — a flap of a desk, sloping upward and inward to close the desk, and opening forward and downward to a horizontal position as a writing surface: a form of fall front.