11-letter words containing f, e, r, o
- fallow deer — A fallow deer is a small deer that has a reddish coat which develops white spots in summer.
- fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
- false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farm worker — a person who is hired to work on a farm
- farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
- farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- 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.
- fax over ip — (communications) (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP.
- feather rot — a viral disease of birds that causes the feathers to become brittle and break off and the beak and claws to become soft.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- febriferous — producing fever.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- 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.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- feme covert — a married woman.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- fernando po — a former name of Bioko.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- ferriferous — producing or yielding iron: ferriferous rock.
- ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
- ferrocement — (of a boat hull) constructed of mortar troweled over a wire mesh that has been preshaped over a mold.
- ferrocerium — an alloy of 65 percent misch metal and 35 percent iron, used in flints for cigarette lighters.
- ferrocyanic — (inorganic chemistry) Of, pertaining to, or derived from a ferrocyanide.
- ferrography — the analysis of iron in lubricants in order to assess the extent of wear in a machine
- ferromagnet — a ferromagnetic substance.
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
- fertigation — (agriculture) the application of fertilizers or other water-soluble products through an irrigation system.
- fervourless — Without fervour.
- fetoprotein — (protein) Any of several antigens produced in a developing embryo, of which the most common is alpha-fetoprotein.
- fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- 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.