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11-letter words containing f, e, i, s

  • field glass — Usually, field glasses. binoculars for use out of doors.
  • field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
  • field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • field study — observation of nature in the wild
  • field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
  • fieldpieces — Plural form of fieldpiece.
  • fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
  • fiery cross — a burning cross, the rallying symbol of ancient Scotland and later of the Highlanders in case of war; later adopted by other organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan.
  • fiesta ware — molded, opaque-glazed earthenware produced in a wide range of colors from 1936 to 1969.
  • fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file server — a computer that makes files available to workstations on a network.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
  • fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
  • fillingness — The property of being filling, of making full.
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
  • final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
  • 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.
  • finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
  • fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
  • fingerlings — Plural form of fingerling.
  • fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
  • fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
  • fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
  • fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
  • finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
  • finish line — a line marking the end of a race.
  • fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
  • 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 master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
  • fire raiser — a person who deliberately sets fire to property
  • fire screen — a screen placed in front of a fireplace for protection, especially from sparks.
  • fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
  • fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
  • firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
  • firesetting — The setting of fires; arson.
  • firestarter — One who starts fires.
  • first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • first cause — God.
  • first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
  • first grade — school year: age 6-7
  • first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
  • first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
  • first state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
  • first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
  • first-order — Not higher-order.
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