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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.
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