11-letter words containing i, f, e, r
- fivefingers — a name for various plants, cinquefoil etc.; a starfish
- fixed price — a price established by a seller, by agreement or by authority, as the price to be charged invariably.
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- fixed-price — option: with set cost
- fixer-upper — a person who is handy at making repairs.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market
- flexitarian — a person whose diet is mostly vegetarian but sometimes includes meat, fish, or poultry.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- flittermice — Plural form of flittermouset, an Alternative spelling of flitter-mouse.
- floor price — a minimum price required of an item being auctioned.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- floriferous — producing blossoms; flower -bearing.
- florilegium — a collection of literary pieces; anthology.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- flower girl — a young girl at a wedding ceremony who precedes the bride and carries or scatters flowers in her path.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- fluid drive — a power coupling for permitting a smooth start in any gear, consisting of two vaned rotors in a sealed casing filled with oil, such that one rotor, driven by the engine, moves the oil to drive the other rotor, which in turn drives the transmission.
- 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.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorimeter — fluorometer.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- flying mare — Wrestling. a method of attack in which a wrestler grasps the wrist of the opponent, turns in the opposite direction, and throws the opponent over the shoulder and down.
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- foliar feed — a substance containing nutrients that is applied to the leaves of a plant
- foliiferous — bearing leaves or leaflike structures.
- folio recto — the front of the page; recto (opposed to folio verso).
- folio verso — the back of the page; verso (opposed to folio recto).
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- food prices — the prices that consumers are charged for food
- foodservice — The business of providing food and related services.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footsoldier — Alternative spelling of foot soldier.
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- forage mite — a mite normally occurring in forage but sometimes infesting the skin of mammals, esp horses, and birds
- foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
- foraminifer — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally