11-letter words containing l, e, a, f, n
- deferential — Someone who is deferential is polite and respectful towards someone else.
- defiliation — the denial of or lack of a male child
- defloration — the act of deflowering
- defoliating — Present participle of defoliate.
- defoliation — to strip (a tree, bush, etc.) of leaves.
- dignifiable — Capable of being dignified.
- dragonflies — Plural form of dragonfly.
- drift angle — the angle made by the path of a drifting vessel with its heading.
- easefulness — State of being easeful, or a quality of promoting ease and tranquillity.
- enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
- exfoliating — Present participle of exfoliate.
- exfoliation — The scaling off of a bone, a rock, or a mineral, etc.; the state of being exfoliated.
- facelifting — Present participle of facelift.
- factualness — Factuality.
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallen arch — collapse of the arch formed by the instep of the foot, resulting in flat feet
- fallen idol — If you refer to someone as a fallen idol, you mean that they have lost people's respect and admiration because of something bad that they have done.
- false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- family name — the hereditary surname of a family.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fashionless — Not fashioned or contrived; natural.
- fatefulness — The quality of being fateful.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fatiloquent — Prophetic; speaking of fate.
- faulknerian — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary style of William Faulkner.
- fault plane — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- festinately — hurried.
- fiançailles — a betrothal, engagement
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- filagreeing — Present participle of filagree.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
- filter lane — a lane governed by a filter at a traffic light, from which traffic can turn left or right while other traffic is held up by a red light
- 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?
- final drive — The final drive is an assembly of gears in the back axle of rear-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the rear wheels) vehicles and in the front axle of front-wheel drive (= with engine power going to the front wheels) vehicles.
- financeable — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- 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.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flagellants — a person who flagellates or scourges himself or herself for religious discipline.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.