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11-letter words containing f, i, e, l, d, r

  • 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.
  • flea-ridden — infested with fleas
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
  • fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
  • fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
  • foliar feed — a substance containing nutrients that is applied to the leaves of a plant
  • footsoldier — Alternative spelling of foot soldier.
  • forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
  • force field — A force field is an area of energy, such as magnetic energy, that surrounds an object or place.
  • freeholding — Property held in freehold.
  • freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
  • frescobaldi — Girolamo [jee-raw-lah-maw] /dʒiˈrɔ lɑ mɔ/ (Show IPA), 1583–1643, Italian organist and composer.
  • friendliest — Superlative form of friendly.
  • full-rigged — (of a sailing vessel) rigged as a ship; square-rigged on all of three or more masts.
  • funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
  • genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
  • girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
  • half-buried — to put in the ground and cover with earth: The pirates buried the chest on the island.
  • half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • idler shaft — a shaft carrying one or more gearwheels that idles between a driver shaft and a driven shaft, usually to reverse the direction of rotation or provide different spacing of gearwheels, esp in a gearbox
  • ill-favored — unpleasant in appearance; homely or ugly.
  • illinformed — lacking adequate or proper knowledge or information, as in one particular subject or in a variety of subjects: The public is ill-informed of the danger.
  • infiltrated — Simple past tense and past participle of infiltrate.
  • interflowed — Simple past tense and past participle of interflow.
  • interleafed — Simple past tense and past participle of interleaf.
  • lady friend — female companion
  • ladyfingers — Plural form of ladyfinger.
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • lift bridge — a bridge having a section that can be lifted vertically to permit passage of boats beneath it.
  • lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
  • liquid fire — flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.
  • microfilmed — Simple past tense and past participle of microfilm.
  • midfielders — Plural form of midfielder.
  • mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
  • myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
  • new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
  • outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
  • prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
  • readme file — (convention, documentation)   A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
  • relief fund — a fund of money set up to provide aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
  • relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
  • requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
  • rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
  • right field — the area of the outfield to the right of center field, as viewed from home plate.
  • self-binder — binder (def 5b).
  • self-desire — to wish or long for; crave; want.
  • self-driven — (of a machine) containing its own power source, as an engine or motor.
  • shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
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