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11-letter words containing f, l, y

  • 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.
  • 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.
  • flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
  • flatulently — In a flatulent manner or fashion.
  • 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
  • flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
  • 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.
  • fluorometry — an instrument for measuring fluorescence, often as a means of determining the nature of the substance emitting the fluorescence.
  • fluoroscopy — the use of or examination by means of a fluoroscope.
  • flusteredly — In a flustered manner.
  • fly gallery — a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.
  • fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
  • 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
  • flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
  • 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.
  • flying suit — a one-piece garment covering the whole body, worn by aircraft pilots and other crew members
  • flying time — the amount of time taken in flying in an aircraft from one place to another
  • flying wing — an airplane whose wings form almost all the airframe, with the fuselage almost or entirely within the wing structure.
  • flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
  • flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
  • folk memory — the memory of past events as preserved in a community
  • followed by — You use followed by to say what comes after something else in a list or ordered set of things.
  • foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
  • forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
  • foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
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