11-letter words containing f, l, a
- 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
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- 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.
- financeable — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- financially — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- financials' — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- findability — (information science) The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- 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 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.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- 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.
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- fishtailing — Present participle of fishtail.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flag-waving — an ostentatiously emotional display of patriotism or factionalism.
- flagellants — a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
- flagellated — to whip; scourge; flog; lash.
- flagellates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flagellate.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flagitation — the act of flagitating
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flak jacket — U.S. Air Force. an armored garment made of steel plates covered by a padded fabric, designed to protect vital parts of the body from shrapnel.
- flake white — lead white.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyancy — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- flame color — bright reddish-orange.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- flammulated — reddish in colour
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flannelette — a warm, soft cotton fabric, plain or printed, napped on one side.
- flannelling — a soft, slightly napped fabric of wool or wool and another fiber, used for trousers, jackets, shirts, etc.
- flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- 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.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory