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11-letter words containing f, e, a, r, l

  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • fatal error — (programming, operating system)   Any error which causes abrupt termination of the program. The program may be terminated either by itself or by the operating system (a "fatal exception"). In the former instance, the program contains code which catches the error and, as a result, returns to the operating system or calls an operating system service to terminate the program.
  • fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
  • faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
  • faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
  • fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
  • featherless — Having no feathers.
  • featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
  • federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
  • federalized — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
  • federalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of federalize.
  • felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
  • fellermelad — (jocular, UK, Ireland, usually with
  • felt marker — a felt pen with a wide nib for making identifying marks, as on clothing.
  • feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
  • fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
  • ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
  • fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
  • field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
  • field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
  • 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.
  • 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 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.
  • 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.
  • flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
  • flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
  • flame color — bright reddish-orange.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • 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 meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • 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.
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