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

  • henry fonda — Henry, 1905–82, U.S. actor.
  • horse-faced — having a large face with lantern jaws and large teeth.
  • id software — (games)   Creators and publishers of the DOOM game for IBM PCs. E-mail: <[email protected]>. Telephone: +1 800-ID-GAMES (Orders only).
  • idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
  • ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
  • infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
  • infomediary — An Internet company that gathers and links information on particular subjects on behalf of commercial organizations and their potential customers.
  • infraorders — Misspelling of infra-orders.
  • infrigidate — (obsolete) To chill; to make cold.
  • interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
  • 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 rudolf — the former name (until 1979) of (Lake) Turkana
  • 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.
  • leapfrogged — Simple past tense and past participle of leapfrog.
  • left-hander — a person who is left-handed, especially a baseball pitcher who throws with the left hand.
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • main-de-fer — manifer.
  • misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
  • myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
  • needlecraft — needlework.
  • overforward — too familiar
  • overstaffed — If you say that a place is overstaffed, you think there are more people working there than is necessary.
  • poker-faced — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
  • powder flag — red flag (def 4).
  • prefinanced — financed in advance
  • proofreader — to read (printers' proofs, copy, etc.) in order to detect and mark errors to be corrected.
  • radio knife — an electrical instrument for cutting tissue that by searing severed blood vessels seals them and prevents bleeding.
  • rangefinder — any of various instruments for determining the distance from the observer to a particular object, as for sighting a gun or adjusting the focus of a camera.
  • rankshifted — that has been shifted from one linguistic rank to another
  • read out of — to look at carefully so as to understand the meaning of (something written, printed, etc.): to read a book; to read music.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • referendary — a referee who resolves disputes or makes decisions
  • reformatted — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
  • requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • rigid frame — (in iron, steel, and reinforced-concrete construction) a bent having absolutely rigid connections at the knees.
  • road safety — prevention of traffic accidents
  • roof garden — a garden on the flat roof of a house or other building.
  • round-faced — having a face that is round.
  • saddle roof — curved covering for a building
  • 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.
  • self-hatred — the feeling of one who hates; intense dislike or extreme aversion or hostility.
  • self-loader — semiautomatic (def 3).
  • self-parody — a humorous or satirical imitation of a serious piece of literature or writing: his hilarious parody of Hamlet's soliloquy.
  • self-regard — consideration for oneself or one's own interests.
  • set forward — to put (something or someone) in a particular place: to set a vase on a table.
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