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11-letter words containing f, e, r

  • flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
  • flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
  • flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
  • flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
  • flatterable — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
  • flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
  • flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
  • flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
  • flea collar — a dog or cat collar impregnated with a chemical for repelling or killing fleas.
  • flea market — a market, often outdoors, consisting of a number of individual stalls selling old or used articles, curios and antiques, cut-rate merchandise, etc.
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • flea-ridden — infested with fleas
  • flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
  • fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
  • fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
  • fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
  • flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
  • flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
  • flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
  • flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
  • flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
  • flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
  • flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
  • flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
  • 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.
  • floor price — a minimum price required of an item being auctioned.
  • floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
  • floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
  • floral leaf — one of the modified leaves forming the perianth of a flower, as a sepal or petal.
  • floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
  • florentines — Plural form of florentine.
  • florescence — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
  • floriferous — producing blossoms; flower -bearing.
  • florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
  • flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
  • 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.
  • flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
  • flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
  • flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
  • flower shop — a shop where flowers and pot plants are sold
  • flower show — a display or exhibition, often competitive, of flowers and plants
  • flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
  • floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
  • fluegelhorn — a brass instrument like the cornet in design and pitch but with a wider bore, larger bell, and mellower tone
  • fluid drive — a power coupling for permitting a smooth start in any gear, consisting of two vaned rotors in a sealed casing filled with oil, such that one rotor, driven by the engine, moves the oil to drive the other rotor, which in turn drives the transmission.
  • fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
  • fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
  • fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
  • fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
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