11-letter words containing f, s
- fifty-sixth — next after the fifty-fifth; being the ordinal number for 56.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- file server — a computer that makes files available to workstations on a network.
- 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.
- filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- fillingness — The property of being filling, of making full.
- film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
- film script — a script containing dialogue and directions for a film; a screenplay
- film studio — a place where films are made
- filmsetting — photocomposition.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- final cause — a person or thing that acts, happens, or exists in such a way that some specific thing happens as a result; the producer of an effect: You have been the cause of much anxiety. What was the cause of the accident?
- financials' — pertaining to monetary receipts and expenditures; pertaining or relating to money matters; pecuniary: financial operations.
- finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fingerlings — Plural form of fingerling.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
- finish line — a line marking the end of a race.
- finish with — end relationship
- fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
- fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
- fire master — (in Scotland) the person in charge of a fire brigade
- fire raiser — a person who deliberately sets fire to property
- fire screen — a screen placed in front of a fireplace for protection, especially from sparks.
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
- firesetting — The setting of fires; arson.
- firestarter — One who starts fires.
- first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first cause — God.
- first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
- first floor — the ground floor of a building.
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first light — dawn.
- first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
- first night — opening night.
- first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
- first state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
- first thing — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.