11-letter words containing f, e, a, l, i
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- festinately — hurried.
- feudalistic — the feudal system, or its principles and practices.
- feudalities — Plural form of feudality.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fiddle away — to waste (time)
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddleheads — Plural form of fiddlehead.
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
- field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
- field label — a descriptive word or phrase for a field in a record, such as 'surname', 'postcode', etc
- 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.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- file attach — [FidoNet] 1. A file sent along with a mail message from one BBS to another. 2. Sending someone a file by using the File Attach option in a BBS mailer.
- film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
- 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
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- 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.
- financeable — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- 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.
- 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.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flake white — lead white.
- flannelling — a soft, slightly napped fabric of wool or wool and another fiber, used for trousers, jackets, shirts, etc.
- 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.
- flat sennit — a rope made of three or more yarns or strands plaited together.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flea-bitten — bitten by a flea or fleas.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flimflammed — Simple past tense and past participle of flimflam.
- flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.