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

  • fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
  • fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
  • field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
  • field grade — military rank applying to mid-level army officers, as majors, lieutenant colonels, and colonels.
  • field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
  • field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • fifth grade — the fifth year of school, when children are ten or eleven years old
  • figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
  • file folder — a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.
  • file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
  • 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.
  • finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
  • finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
  • finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
  • fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  • fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
  • fire damage — damage caused to a building or other object by fire
  • fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
  • fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
  • fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
  • fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
  • first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • first grade — school year: age 6-7
  • first-order — Not higher-order.
  • fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
  • fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
  • fixed-price — option: with set cost
  • 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
  • food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
  • foodservice — The business of providing food and related services.
  • footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
  • footsoldier — Alternative spelling of foot soldier.
  • foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
  • forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
  • 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.
  • forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
  • foredestine — (rare) predestine.
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