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11-letter words containing f, o, l

  • flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
  • flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
  • fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
  • fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
  • 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 frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
  • flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
  • 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
  • fo' shizzle — for sure; certainly; without question
  • foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
  • focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
  • focal plane — a plane through a focal point and normal to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system. Compare principal plane.
  • focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
  • focal ratio — f-number.
  • folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
  • foliar feed — a substance containing nutrients that is applied to the leaves of a plant
  • foliicolous — growing on leaves, as certain liverworts.
  • foliiferous — bearing leaves or leaflike structures.
  • folio recto — the front of the page; recto (opposed to folio verso).
  • folio verso — the back of the page; verso (opposed to folio recto).
  • folk memory — the memory of past events as preserved in a community
  • folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
  • folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
  • folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
  • folklorists — Plural form of folklorist.
  • folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
  • folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
  • folliculose — having or resembling follicles
  • folliculous — having or producing follicles
  • follow shot — Also, following shot. Movies, Television. a traveling shot made as the camera moves along with the subject: a follow shot of the buffalo stampede, taken from a low-flying helicopter.
  • follow suit — a set of clothing, armor, or the like, intended for wear together.
  • followed by — You use followed by to say what comes after something else in a list or ordered set of things.
  • fond du lac — a city in E Wisconsin, on Lake Winnebago.
  • food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
  • food pollen — infertile pollen produced by some plants that attracts insects and thus aids pollination
  • food vessel — an early Bronze Age grave vessel, 1600–1300 b.c., found in Ireland and northern Britain and intended for the use of the deceased in the afterlife.
  • fool around — a silly or stupid person; a person who lacks judgment or sense.
  • fool's gold — iron or copper pyrites, sometimes mistaken for gold.
  • fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
  • foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
  • foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
  • fools' lisp — A small Scheme interpreter by Jonathan Lee <[email protected]>. Version 1.3.2 is R4RS conformant. It runs on Sun-3, Sun-4, Decstation, VAX (Ultrix), Sequent, Apollo.
  • foot patrol — an assigned or habitual round or route, as of a police officer or sentry
  • foot-candle — a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbreviation: FC.
  • footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
  • footballist — Lb dated A football player.
  • footlockers — Plural form of footlocker.
  • footslogged — Simple past tense and past participle of footslog.
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