11-letter words containing f, e, v
- face-saving — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- facultative — conferring a faculty, privilege, permission, or the power of doing or not doing something: a facultative enactment.
- faggot vote — (formerly) a vote created by the allotting of property to a person to give him the status of an elector
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- fascinative — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
- fax over ip — (communications) (FoIP) Transmission of a facsimile over an IP networking instead of PSTN, analogous to Voice over IP.
- feme covert — a married woman.
- ferdinand v — Ferdinand II (def 1).
- ferventness — Quality of being fervent.
- fervourless — Without fervour.
- festiveness — The quality of being festive; festivity.
- festivities — a festive celebration or occasion.
- fever pitch — a high degree of excitement, as of a gathering of people: The announcement of victory brought the crowd to fever pitch.
- fictiveness — The quality of being fictive.
- field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
- fifty-seven — a cardinal number, 50 plus 7.
- file server — a computer that makes files available to workstations on a network.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- 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.
- finger wave — a wave set by impressing the fingers into hair dampened by lotion or water.
- finite verb — a verb form that distinguishes person, number, and tense, and also mood or aspect, as opens in She opens the door.
- first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
- five senses — sight, hearing, smell, touch, taste
- five stones — the game of jacks played with five stones
- five-a-side — a version of soccer with five players on each side
- five-eighth — (in rugby) a player positioned between the scrum-half and the inside-centre
- five-finger — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- 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.
- fivefingers — a name for various plants, cinquefoil etc.; a starfish
- 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 silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- fleece-vine — silver-lace vine.
- flexecutive — an executive to whom the employer allows flexibility about times and locations of working
- float valve — a valve admitting or discharging a liquid to or from a tank and regulated by a float on the surface of the liquid within the tank to maintain a nearly constant height of liquid.
- 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.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- folio verso — the back of the page; verso (opposed to folio recto).
- food vessel — an early Bronze Age grave vessel, 1600–1300 b.c., found in Ireland and northern Britain and intended for the use of the deceased in the afterlife.
- foodservice — The business of providing food and related services.
- forestville — a city in central Maryland, near Washington, D.C.
- forevermore — forever hereafter.
- foreverness — permanence; eternity.
- forevouched — previously avowed
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- forgiveness — act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
- fort devens — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Massachusetts, SW of Ayer.