11-letter words containing f, e, d, r
- fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featheredge — an edge that thins out like a feather.
- featherhead — featherbrain.
- 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.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- feeder line — a branch of a main transportation line, as of an airline or railroad.
- feeder road — a secondary road used to bring traffic to a major road.
- feedforward — The modification or control of a process using its anticipated results or effects.
- feedthrough — a connector used to pass a conductor through a circuit board or enclosure.
- fellermelad — (jocular, UK, Ireland, usually with
- fender pile — a pile, usually one of a group, set beside ferry slips, wharves, etc., to guide approaching vessels and driven so as to yield slightly when struck in order to lessen the shock of contact.
- fenestrated — having windows; windowed; characterized by windows.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- ferdinand i — Spanish Fernando I. ("Ferdinand the Great") died 1065, king of Castile 1033–65, king of Navarre and Leon 1037–65; emperor of Spain 1056–65.
- ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- 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 grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- 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.
- field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- file folder — a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.
- file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
- 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.
- finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.