11-letter words containing l, h, r
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- 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.
- feral child — a neglected child who engages in lawless or anti-social behaviour
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- film rights — the rights purchased from the author of a work that enable a film maker to make a film of it
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- filthy rich — foul with, characterized by, or having the nature of filth; disgustingly or completely dirty.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- first light — dawn.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- 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.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash harry — a man who likes to dress and behave ostentatiously
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).
- fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
- 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.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flexography — a relief printing technique similar to letterpress that employs rubber or soft plastic plates, a simple inking system, and fast-drying inks.
- flight crew — the crew responsible for an aircraft during a flight
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- flower head — an inflorescence consisting of a dense cluster of small, stalkless flowers; capitulum.
- flower shop — a shop where flowers and pot plants are sold
- flower show — a display or exhibition, often competitive, of flowers and plants
- flowerheads — Plural form of flowerhead.
- flowthrough — Flow (through a system or process).
- fluegelhorn — a brass instrument like the cornet in design and pitch but with a wider bore, larger bell, and mellower tone
- fluorophore — (biochemistry) A molecule or functional group which is capable of fluorescence.
- flush right — even or level, as with a surface; forming the same plane: The bottom of the window is flush with the floor.
- flushometer — a device for flushing toilets that uses system pressure rather than gravity and automatically shuts off after a measured amount of water flow in order to conserve water.
- flycatchers — Plural form of flycatcher.
- foolhardily — In a foolhardy manner.
- forest hill — a town in N Texas.
- fortnightly — occurring or appearing once a fortnight.
- fothergilla — any of the deciduous shrub species in the witch-hazel family
- four-h club — an organization sponsored by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, established chiefly to instruct young people, originally in rural areas, in modern farming methods and other useful skills, as carpentry and home economics.
- fourflusher — a person who makes false or pretentious claims; bluffer.
- fourth wall — the imaginary wall of a box set, separating the actors from the audience.
- francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
- free flight — unassisted or unconstrained flight, as the flight of a rocket or missile without guidance or after fuel exhaustion or motor cutoff.
- free school — a privately run school organized as an alternative to the traditional public or private school, usually following a highly flexible approach to the curriculum and teaching methods.