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11-letter words containing f, l, s

  • fillingness — The property of being filling, of making full.
  • 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
  • film studio — a place where films are made
  • filmsetting — photocomposition.
  • filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
  • filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
  • 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?
  • financials' — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
  • fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
  • fingerlings — Plural form of fingerling.
  • fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
  • fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
  • finish line — a line marking the end of a race.
  • 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-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
  • fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
  • 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 kettle — an oval pan used for cooking a whole fish
  • 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.
  • fistulizing — Pathology. to form a fistula.
  • flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
  • flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flagellants — a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
  • flagellates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flagellate.
  • flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
  • flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
  • 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
  • flash flood — a sudden and destructive rush of water down a narrow gully or over a sloping surface, caused by heavy rainfall.
  • flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
  • flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
  • flash point — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
  • flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
  • flashfloods — Plural form of flashflood.
  • flashlights — Plural form of flashlight.
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