11-letter words containing f, r, i, d, l
- light draft — the draft of a vessel at its light displacement.
- lindisfarne — Holy Island (def 1).
- liquid fire — flaming petroleum or the like, as employed against an enemy in warfare.
- lizard fish — any of several large-mouthed fishes of the family Synodontidae, having a lizardlike head.
- microfilmed — Simple past tense and past participle of microfilm.
- midfielders — Plural form of midfielder.
- mildewproof — able to withstand or repel the effect of mildew.
- millifarads — Plural form of millifarad.
- myriad-leaf — an aquatic plant, Myriophyllum verticillatum, of the North Temperate Zone, having hairlike, submerged leaves.
- new milford — a town in W Connecticut.
- old frisian — the Frisian language before c1500. Abbreviation: OFris.
- outfielders — Plural form of outfielder.
- prime field — a field that contains no proper subset that is itself a field.
- readme file — (convention, documentation) A text file traditionally included in the top-level directory of a software distribution, containing pointers to documentation, credits, revision history, notes, etc. Originally found in Unix source distributions, the convention has spread to many other products. The file may be named README, READ.ME, ReadMe or readme.txt or some other variant. In the Macintosh and IBM PC worlds, software is not usually distributed in source form, and the README is more likely to contain user-oriented material like last-minute documentation changes, error workarounds, and restrictions. The README convention probably follows the famous scene in Lewis Carroll's "Alice's Adventures In Wonderland" in which Alice confronts magic munchies labeled "Eat Me" and "Drink Me".
- relief fund — a fund of money set up to provide aid for people in need, esp in disaster areas
- relief road — a road carrying traffic round an urban area; bypass
- requalified — to provide with proper or necessary skills, knowledge, credentials, etc.; make competent: to qualify oneself for a job.
- rifled slug — a shotgun projectile with helical grooves on its sides for imparting a spin to it when it is fired through the smooth bore of the shotgun.
- right field — the area of the outfield to the right of center field, as viewed from home plate.
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- self-desire — to wish or long for; crave; want.
- self-driven — (of a machine) containing its own power source, as an engine or motor.
- shield fern — any of numerous ferns of the genera Dryopteris and Polystichum, having shield-shaped indusia.
- short field — the area of the infield between third base and second, covered by the shortstop.
- soldier fly — any of several flies of the family Stratiomyidae, characterized by brightly colored abdominal stripes.
- soldierfish — any of several squirrelfishes of the family Holocentridae.
- springfield — a state in the central United States: a part of the Midwest. 56,400 sq. mi. (146,075 sq. km). Capital: Springfield. Abbreviation: IL (for use with zip code), Ill.
- syrphid fly — any of numerous beelike or wasplike flies of the family Syrphidae that feed on the nectar and pollen of flowers and have larvae that feed on decaying vegetation or prey on aphids.
- third floor — the storey of a building immediately above the second and three floors up from the ground
- tidal force — the gravitational pull exerted by a celestial body that raises the tides on another body within the gravitational field, dependent on the varying distance between the bodies.
- trifluoride — a fluoride containing three atoms of fluorine.
- unclarified — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- underfulfil — to fall short of satisfaction
- unglorified — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
- wallingford — a town in S Connecticut.
- wild flower — the flower of a plant that normally grows in fields, forests, etc., without deliberate cultivation.
- wildcrafter — One who takes part in wildcraft.
- wildflowers — Plural form of wildflower.
- wolf spider — any of numerous ground spiders of the family Lycosidae, including the southern European tarantula, Lycosa taretula, that hunt their prey instead of using a web.