11-letter words containing f, e, a, l, i
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
- flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- foliar feed — a substance containing nutrients that is applied to the leaves of a plant
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- foretopsail — (nautical) the sail draped from the foretopmast.
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- forficulate — resembling scissors
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
- formularies — Plural form of formulary.
- formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
- formularize — formulate.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- fractionlet — a small piece
- fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- fragilities — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
- franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- fulfillable — Capable of being fulfilled.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- get a life! — (abuse) Standard way of suggesting that someone has succumbed to terminal geekdom. Often heard on Usenet, especially as a way of suggesting that the target is taking some obscure issue of theology too seriously. This exhortation was popularised by William Shatner on a "Saturday Night Live" episode in a speech that ended "Get a *life*!", but some respondents believe it to have been in use before then. It was certainly in wide use among hackers for at least five years before achieving mainstream currency in early 1992.
- glass fiber — Glass fiber is another name for fiberglass.
- glass fibre — Glass fibre is another name for fibreglass.
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- hail-fellow — Also, hail fellow, hail-fellow well met. a spiritedly sociable person; jolly companion.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.