11-letter words containing l, e, a, f
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- flickertail — Richardson ground squirrel.
- flimflammed — Simple past tense and past participle of flimflam.
- flimflammer — a trick or deception, especially a swindle or confidence game involving skillful persuasion or clever manipulation of the victim.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- flitchplate — an iron or steel plate for reinforcing a flitch beam.
- float valve — a valve admitting or discharging a liquid to or from a tank and regulated by a float on the surface of the liquid within the tank to maintain a nearly constant height of liquid.
- floatplanes — Plural form of floatplane.
- flocculated — Collected together in a loose aggregation like flocks (tufts) of wool, or coagulated in this way.
- flocculates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flocculate.
- flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
- floorwalker — a person employed in a store to direct customers and supervise salespeople.
- floral leaf — one of the modified leaves forming the perianth of a flower, as a sepal or petal.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- fluconazole — An antifungal drug used especially against Candida.
- flumadiddle — utter nonsense.
- fluoridated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoridate.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- flusterated — flustered; agitated.
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- fly gallery — a narrow platform at the side of a stage from which ropes are manipulated to raise or lower scenery, battens, etc.
- fly swatter — a device for killing flies, mosquitoes, and other insects, usually a square sheet of wire mesh attached to a long handle.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- 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.
- foamflowers — Plural form of foamflower.
- focal depth — lens: distance of sharp focus
- focal plane — a plane through a focal point and normal to the axis of a lens, mirror, or other optical system. Compare principal plane.
- foliar feed — a substance containing nutrients that is applied to the leaves of a plant
- folliculate — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- food parcel — parcels of food prepared and sent, esp by charitable organizations, to people in need
- fool's mate — a checkmate achieved by Black's second move: the quickest possible mate
- foot-candle — a unit of illuminance or illumination, equivalent to the illumination produced by a source of one candle at a distance of one foot and equal to one lumen incident per square foot. Abbreviation: FC.
- for example — as an example, by way of illustration
- forced sale — a sale held as a result of a judicial order.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- foreseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forestalled — Simple past tense and past participle of forestall.
- forestaller — A person who forestalls, especially one who buys goods before they can be sold on the open market in anticipation of rising prices.