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11-letter words containing f, i, l, m

  • family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
  • family unit — a social group traditionally consisting of parents and children
  • familymoons — Plural form of familymoon.
  • farm animal — agriculture: livestock or poultry
  • favellidium — (in certain red algae) a cystocarp wholly or partly immersed in a frond.
  • field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
  • filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file system — (operating system)   (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
  • filled milk — milk containing a substitute for the butterfat.
  • film camera — a camera for taking moving pictures for a cinema film
  • film colour — a misty appearance produced when no lines or edges are present in the visual field
  • film critic — sb who reviews movies
  • film rating — a rating imposed by the British Board of Film Censors that indicates the minimum age of people allowed to view the film
  • film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
  • film script — a script containing dialogue and directions for a film; a screenplay
  • film studio — a place where films are made
  • film-making — the activity or business of producing and directing films
  • filmization — an adaptation of a novel, play, etc., for a motion picture.
  • filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
  • fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
  • fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
  • firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
  • 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.
  • flimflammed — Simple past tense and past participle of flimflam.
  • flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
  • flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
  • flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
  • florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
  • flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
  • fluorimeter — fluorometer.
  • fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
  • flying bomb — robot bomb.
  • flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
  • flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
  • flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
  • folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
  • foreglimpse — a revelation or glimpse of the future.
  • formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
  • formalising — Present participle of formalise.
  • formalistic — strict adherence to, or observance of, prescribed or traditional forms, as in music, poetry, and art.
  • formalities — condition or quality of being formal; accordance with required or traditional rules, procedures, etc.; conventionality.
  • formalizing — Present participle of formalize.
  • formational — the act or process of forming or the state of being formed: the formation of ice.
  • formularies — Plural form of formulary.
  • formularise — (British) To express as a formula, to formulate.
  • formularize — formulate.
  • formulating — Present participle of formulate.
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