11-letter words containing f, i, l, n
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
- fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
- fustilirian — a person who uses a cudgel rather than a sword; hence, a lowly person or a commoner (from Henry IV by William Shakespeare)
- gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
- genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
- genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
- gill fungus — an agaricaceous fungus; mushroom.
- girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
- go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
- gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
- golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
- goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
- gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
- grand final — the final game of the season in any of various sports, esp football
- grandiflora — any of several plant varieties or hybrids characterized by large showy flowers, as certain kinds of petunias, baby's breath, or roses.
- granuliform — having a granular structure
- guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
- gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
- haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
- half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
- half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
- half-hoping — having or expressing some hope
- half-joking — something said or done to provoke laughter or cause amusement, as a witticism, a short and amusing anecdote, or a prankish act: He tells very funny jokes. She played a joke on him.
- half-minute — 30 seconds
- 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.
- halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
- hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
- hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
- high-flying — moving upward to or along at a considerable height: highflying planes.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- hold in fee — to own; possess
- honorifical — honorific
- ill feeling — animosity or resentment felt toward another.
- ill-defined — badly or inadequately defined; vague: He confuses the reader with ill-defined terms and concepts.
- ill-fitting — (of a garment) not fitting well.
- ill-founded — based on weak evidence, illogical reasoning, or the like: an ill-founded theory.
- 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.
- in full cry — When someone is in full cry, they are expressing their views very strongly or are very active.
- in full fig — completely dressed or outfitted, esp. in a showy manner
- in light of — something that makes things visible or affords illumination: All colors depend on light.
- in line for — in the running for; a candidate for
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indian file — in single file.
- indian wolf — a wolf, Canis lupus pallipes, of Asia south of the Himalayas.