11-letter words containing f, e, d
- 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.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- fire damage — damage caused to a building or other object by fire
- fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
- 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.
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
- first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- five-a-side — a version of soccer with five players on each side
- five-gaited — noting an American saddle horse that has been trained to execute the rack and slow gait in addition to the walk, trot, and canter, and that is used chiefly for showing.
- five-legged — (of a schooner) having five masts.
- fixed asset — any long-term asset, as a building, tract of land, or patent.
- fixed costs — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- fixed point — (mathematics) The fixed point of a function, f is any value, x for which f x = x. A function may have any number of fixed points from none (e.g. f x = x+1) to infinitely many (e.g. f x = x). The fixed point combinator, written as either "fix" or "Y" will return the fixed point of a function. See also least fixed point.
- fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- fixed-point — (programming) A number representation scheme where a number, F is represented by an integer I such that F=I*R^-P, where R is the (assumed) radix of the representation and P is the (fixed) number of digits after the radix point. On computers with no floating-point unit, fixed-point calculations are significantly faster than floating-point as all the operations are basically integer operations. Fixed-point representation also has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is R^-P throughout the representable range, in contrast to floating-point representations. For example, in PL/I, FIXED data has both a precision and a scale-factor (P above). So a number declared as 'FIXED DECIMAL(7,2)' has a precision of seven and a scale-factor of two, indicating five integer and two fractional decimal digits. The smallest difference between numbers will be 0.01.
- fixed-price — option: with set cost
- fixed-width — record
- flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
- flagellated — to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
- flammulated — reddish in colour
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- 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-footed — having flatfeet.
- flat-packed — (of a piece of furniture, equipment, or other construction) supplied in pieces packed into a flat box for assembly by the buyer
- flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- fleetfooted — Swift on one's feet.
- flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
- flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- flimflammed — Simple past tense and past participle of flimflam.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
- flooded out — inundated by floodwater
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floor model — a radio, television set, or other furnishing or appliance intended to stand on the floor rather than on a table; console.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.