11-letter words containing f, o, s, r, i
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- fairy story — A fairy story is the same as a fairy tale.
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farraginous — heterogeneous; mixed: a farraginous collection of random ideas.
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- febriferous — producing fever.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- ferriferous — producing or yielding iron: ferriferous rock.
- ferruginous — Geology. iron-bearing: ferruginous clays.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- fiery cross — a burning cross, the rallying symbol of ancient Scotland and later of the Highlanders in case of war; later adopted by other organizations, including the Ku Klux Klan.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first floor — the ground floor of a building.
- first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- fissiparous — reproducing by fission.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- floriferous — producing blossoms; flower -bearing.
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.