11-letter words containing i, k
- fair-spoken — speaking or spoken in a courteous, civil, or plausible manner; smooth-spoken.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddlestick — anything; a bit: I don't care a fiddlestick for what they say.
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- filled milk — milk containing a substitute for the butterfat.
- film-making — the activity or business of producing and directing films
- filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
- finger mark — a mark, especially a smudge or stain, made by a finger.
- fingermarks — Plural form of fingermark.
- fingerpicks — Plural form of fingerpick.
- finickiness — The quality of being finicky.
- firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
- fish kettle — an oval pan used for cooking a whole fish
- fish market — a market selling fish
- fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
- fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
- fit to kill — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- fitzpatrick — Sean (ʃɔːn). born 1963, New Zealand Rugby Union footballer; played in 92 test matches (1986–97), 51 as captain
- flake white — lead white.
- flick knife — switchblade.
- flick-knife — switchblade.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flight deck — Navy. the upper deck of an aircraft carrier, constructed and equipped for the landing and takeoff of aircraft.
- floppy disk — Computers. a thin plastic disk coated with magnetic material, on which computer data and programs can be stored for later retrieval.
- flying kite — any of various sails set above the royals or skysails in light weather; jolly jumper.
- flyspecking — A technique for painting furniture with flicked drops of paint.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- folk wisdom — wisdom or beliefs associated with or traditional to the common people of a country
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- folklorists — Plural form of folklorist.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- forcepslike — Resembling a forceps.
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- forty winks — a short nap.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- franklinite — a mineral of the spinel group, an oxide of zinc, manganese, and iron, occurring in black octahedral crystals or in masses: formerly mined for zinc.
- franz kline — Franz (Josef) [joh-zuh f,, -suh f] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf,, -səf/ (Show IPA), 1910–62, U.S. painter.
- frederick i — ("Frederick Barbarossa") 1123?–90, king of Germany 1152–90; king of Italy 1152–90: emperor of the Holy Roman Empire 1152–90.
- frederick v — called the Winter King. 1596–1632, elector of the Palatinate (1610–23) and king of Bohemia (1619–20). He led the revolt of Bohemian Protestants at the beginning of the Thirty Years' War
- frederik ix — 1899–1972, king of Denmark 1947–72 (son of Christian X).
- fredrikstad — a port in SE Norway at the entrance to Oslo Fjord. Pop: 69 867 (2004 est)
- free ticket — entitlement to sth at no cost
- freethinker — a person who forms opinions on the basis of reason, independent of authority or tradition, especially a person whose religious opinions differ from established belief.