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11-letter words containing i, f, e, r

  • fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
  • fire cherry — pin cherry.
  • fire damage — damage caused to a building or other object by fire
  • fire engine — a vehicle equipped for firefighting, now usually a motor truck having a motor-driven pump for shooting water or chemical solutions at high pressure.
  • fire escape — an apparatus or structure used to escape from a burning building, as a metal stairway down an outside wall.
  • fire hazard — an object, building etc that could easily catch fire or cause a fire and thereby endanger life
  • 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 temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
  • fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
  • fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
  • fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
  • fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
  • firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
  • firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
  • firefighter — a person who fights destructive fires.
  • firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
  • firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
  • fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
  • firesetting — The setting of fires; arson.
  • firestarter — One who starts fires.
  • firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
  • firing line — Military. the positions at which troops are stationed to fire upon the enemy or targets. the troops firing from this line.
  • firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
  • first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
  • first cause — God.
  • first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
  • first grade — school year: age 6-7
  • first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
  • first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
  • first state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
  • first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
  • first-order — Not higher-order.
  • first-timer — a person who does, experiences, or attends something for the first time.
  • fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
  • fish course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
  • fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
  • fish finger — Fish fingers are small long pieces of fish covered in breadcrumbs. They are usually sold in frozen form.
  • fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
  • fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
  • fish market — a market selling fish
  • fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
  • fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
  • fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
  • fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
  • fishetarian — (informal) pescetarian; one who eats no meat other than fish.
  • fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
  • five-finger — any of certain species of potentilla having leaves of five leaflets, as Potentilla canadensis.
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