11-letter words containing f, i, r, l
- 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
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
- filter lane — a lane governed by a filter at a traffic light, from which traffic can turn left or right while other traffic is held up by a red light
- 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
- filthy rich — foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- 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.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fingerlings — Plural form of fingerling.
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- fire beetle — any of numerous click beetles of the genus Pyrophorus, of tropical America, having luminous reddish or greenish spots on the body.
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- 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 temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- firing line — Military. the positions at which troops are stationed to fire upon the enemy or targets. the troops firing from this line.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
- first floor — the ground floor of a building.
- first light — dawn.
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- first-class — of the highest or best class or quality: a first-class movie.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- 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.
- flat racing — a race run on a level track having no hurdles, water jumps, hedges, or the like to hinder the speed of the entrants.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- 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.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.