11-letter words containing f, i, n, a, l
- formulating — Present participle of formulate.
- formulation — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- forstalling — Present participle of forstall.
- fractionlet — a small piece
- fragileness — easily broken, shattered, or damaged; delicate; brittle; frail: a fragile ceramic container; a very fragile alliance.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
- frantically — desperate or wild with excitement, passion, fear, pain, etc.; frenzied.
- franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
- freefalling — Present participle of freefall.
- freelancing — Present participle of freelance.
- freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- friableness — The state or quality of being friable; friability.
- fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
- fulgurating — (of pains) sharp and piercing.
- fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
- full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
- fulminating — Present participle of fulminate.
- fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
- fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- functionals — Plural form of functional.
- funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
- funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- highfalutin — pompous; bombastic; haughty; pretentious.
- honorifical — honorific
- in place of — instead of, replacing
- increaseful — full of increase; fertile; fruitful
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.