11-letter words containing f, r, a, e
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- fairweather — Mount, a mountain in SE Alaska. 15,292 feet (4660 meters).
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- fairy cycle — a child's bicycle
- fairy glove — purple foxglove.
- fairy green — a medium yellow-green color.
- fairy queen — the queen of the fairies
- fairy stone — a fossil or other oddly shaped stone or crystal.
- fallen arch — collapse of the arch formed by the instep of the foot, resulting in flat feet
- fallow deer — A fallow deer is a small deer that has a reddish coat which develops white spots in summer.
- fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
- false alarm — a false report of a fire in progress to a fire department.
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
- false fruit — a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue.
- false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
- false start — in a race
- false-start — to leave the starting line or position too early and thereby necessitate repeating the signal to begin a race.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- familiarize — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- fan the air — to strike at but fail to hit something
- fan tracery — the carved ornamentation on fan vaulting
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- fanfaronade — bragging; bravado; bluster.
- far eastern — the countries of E Asia, including China, Japan, Korea, and sometimes adjacent areas.
- far-fetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- farawayness — the state of being faraway
- fare-beater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- fare-dodger — a person who tries to travel on public transport without paying the fare
- farinaceous — consisting or made of flour or meal, as food.
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- farm bureau — American Farm Bureau Federation.
- farm cheese — a mild, firm pressed cheese
- farm system — any small-scale or localized network or industry that provides experience and exposure for beginners, similar to that of a baseball farm.
- farm worker — a person who is hired to work on a farm
- farm-sitter — a person who takes temporary charge of a farm during the absence or incapacity of the owner.
- farmworkers — Plural form of farmworker.
- farreaching — Alternative spelling of far-reaching.
- farthermost — most distant or remote; farthest.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fast worker — a person who is quick and shrewd in gaining personal advantage: A fast worker, he soon knew everyone who had any pull.
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- fatal error — (programming, operating system) Any error which causes abrupt termination of the program. The program may be terminated either by itself or by the operating system (a "fatal exception"). In the former instance, the program contains code which catches the error and, as a result, returns to the operating system or calls an operating system service to terminate the program.
- father time — the personification of time as an old man, usually in a white robe, having a white beard, and carrying a scythe.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.