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

  • fruit knife — a small knife, usually having a distinctive handle and a stainless steel blade with a sharp or serrated edge, used at table for paring and cutting fruit.
  • fuel-saving — (of a vehicle) using less fuel for a further distance
  • fulfillment — the act or state of fulfilling: to witness the fulfillment of a dream; to achieve fulfillment of one's hopes.
  • full gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward somersault, entering the water feet first and facing away from the springboard.
  • functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
  • fund-raiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
  • fundraisers — Plural form of fundraiser.
  • funeral pie — a traditional pie made with a black filling of raisins and lemon juice and presented to a bereaved family.
  • funeralized — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
  • funfkirchen — German name of Pécs.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • furiousness — The state or quality of being furious or outraged; enragement; inflamedness.
  • furnacelike — Resembling or characteristic of a furnace.
  • furnishment — (obsolete) The act of furnishing, or of supplying furniture.
  • furtiveness — taken, done, used, etc., surreptitiously or by stealth; secret: a furtive glance.
  • fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
  • gainfulness — The state or quality of being gainful; profitableness.
  • gamma knife — a machine that uses radiation with extreme accuracy to destroy abnormal tissue, esp in the brain
  • genderfluid — Not conforming to fixed gender roles.
  • gentrifiers — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
  • gentrifying — Present participle of gentrify.
  • genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
  • get wind of — hear rumours of
  • girlfriends — Plural form of girlfriend.
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
  • golden fizz — a drink containing egg yolk, gin or vodka, lemon juice, sugar, and soda water.
  • goldfinches — Plural form of goldfinch.
  • gonfalonier — the bearer of a gonfalon.
  • graniferous — bearing grain
  • guaifenesin — An expectorant used in cough syrups and sometimes for pain relief from fibromyalgia.
  • guaniferous — yielding guano
  • guinea fowl — any of several African, gallinaceous birds of the subfamily Numidinae, especially a common species, Numida meleagris, that has a bony casque on the head and dark gray plumage spotted with white and that is now domesticated and raised for its flesh and eggs.
  • gut feeling — an instinctive feeling, as opposed to an opinion based on facts
  • haddonfield — a town in SW New Jersey.
  • half gainer — a dive in which the diver takes off facing forward and performs a backward half-somersault, entering the water headfirst and facing the springboard.
  • half-hidden — concealed; obscure; covert: hidden meaning; hidden hostility.
  • half-minute — 30 seconds
  • half-ruined — ruins, the remains of a building, city, etc., that has been destroyed or that is in disrepair or a state of decay: We visited the ruins of ancient Greece.
  • halleflinta — a type of rock, volcanic or metamorphic in origin, that has a fine grain
  • han fei-tzu — died 233 b.c, Chinese philosopher and legal theorist.
  • hereinafter — afterward in this document, statement, etc.
  • hessian fly — a small fly, Phytophaga destructor, the larvae of which feed on the stems of wheat and other grasses.
  • hidden flag — (scientific computation) An extra option added to a routine without changing the calling sequence. For example, instead of adding an explicit input variable to instruct a routine to give extra diagnostic output, the programmer might just add a test for some otherwise meaningless feature of the existing inputs, such as a negative mass. The use of hidden flags can make a program very hard to debug and understand, but is all too common wherever programs are hacked in a hurry.
  • hit the fan — any device for producing a current of air by the movement of a broad surface or a number of such surfaces.
  • hold in fee — to own; possess
  • house finch — a small common finch, Carpodacus mexicanus, originally of the western U.S. and Mexico and now widely distributed: the males have a red forehead, throat, breast, and rump.
  • huffishness — The quality of being huffish.
  • ice fishing — the act or practice of fishing through a hole cut in the ice.
  • identifiers — Plural form of identifier.
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