11-letter words containing f, e, l, r
- false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
- false start — in a race
- false-start — to leave the starting line or position too early and thereby necessitate repeating the signal to begin a race.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- 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.
- feeder line — a branch of a main transportation line, as of an airline or railroad.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- fertileness — (rare) The state or characteristic of being fertile.
- fertilisers — Plural form of fertiliser.
- fertilising — Present participle of fertilise.
- fertilities — Plural form of fertility.
- fertilizers — Plural form of fertilizer.
- fertilizing — Present participle of fertilize.
- fervourless — Without fervour.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- 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.
- filagreeing — Present participle of filagree.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.