11-letter words containing f, i, r, n
- fire engine — a vehicle equipped for firefighting, now usually a motor truck having a motor-driven pump for shooting water or chemical solutions at high pressure.
- 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 screen — a screen placed in front of a fireplace for protection, especially from sparks.
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- firesetting — The setting of fires; arson.
- 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 night — opening night.
- first thing — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
- fish finger — Fish fingers are small long pieces of fish covered in breadcrumbs. They are usually sold in frozen form.
- fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- five-finger — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
- fivefingers — a name for various plants, cinquefoil etc.; a starfish
- 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.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- 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.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- for nothing — freely, free
- foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
- foraminifer — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply