11-letter words containing f, l, y, i
- family hour — any broadcast period from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when programs of general interest to the family are broadcast.
- family life — life with one's family; the part of one's life concerned with one's family
- family name — the hereditary surname of a family.
- family plan — a special rate, especially of air passenger carriers, under which the head of a household purchasing a full-fare ticket may take other family members at reduced fares on certain days.
- family room — a room in a house used as a center for family activities.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- family unit — a social group traditionally consisting of parents and children
- familymoons — Plural form of familymoon.
- fanatically — motivated or characterized by an extreme, uncritical enthusiasm or zeal, as in religion or politics.
- fantasticly — Obsolete form of fantastically.
- farcicality — pertaining to or of the nature of farce.
- fashionably — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fatiguingly — In a fatiguing manner.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feloniously — Law. pertaining to, of the nature of, or involving a felony: felonious homicide; felonious intent.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- festinately — hurried.
- fictionally — In a fictional manner.
- fiddle away — to waste (time)
- fiduciarily — Law. a person to whom property or power is entrusted for the benefit of another.
- field study — observation of nature in the wild
- fifteenthly — in the fifteenth place or position
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- file system — (operating system) (FS, or "filesystem") 1. A system for organizing directories and files, generally in terms of how it is implemented in the disk operating system. E.g., "The Macintosh file system is just dandy as long as you don't have to interface it with any other file systems". 2. The collection of files and directories stored on a given drive (floppy drive, hard drive, disk partition, logical drive, RAM drive, etc.). E.g., "mount attaches a named file system to the file system hierarchy at the pathname location directory [...]" -- Unix manual page for "mount(8)". As an extension of this sense, "file system" is sometimes used to refer to the representatation of the file system's organisation (e.g. its file allocation table) as opposed the actual content of the files in the file system.
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- filthy rich — foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
- financially — 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.
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- flauntingly — In a flaunting manner.
- flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- flinchingly — With a flinching motion.
- floppy disc — (spelling) It's "floppy disk", not like "compact disc".
- floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- fly-fishing — Angling. a method of fishing in which fly casting is used.
- fly-tipping — the deliberate dumping of rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying fish — any fish of the family Exocoetidae, having stiff and greatly enlarged pectoral fins enabling it to glide considerable distances through the air after leaping from the water.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- 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.