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11-letter words containing l, o, e, f

  • field house — a building housing the dressing facilities, storage spaces, etc., used in connection with an athletic field.
  • field mouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
  • field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
  • fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
  • fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
  • filamentous — composed of or containing filaments.
  • file folder — a thin cardboard folder of a size to be stored in the drawer of a file cabinet and for containing correspondence and other files.
  • file-powder — a powder made from the ground leaves of the sassafras tree, used as a thickener and to impart a pungent taste to soups, gumbos, and other dishes.
  • filled gold — a composition consisting of gold-plating welded to and rolled with a backing of brass or other base metal, at least 1/20 (0.05) of the total weight being that of the gold.
  • filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
  • 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-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
  • fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
  • flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
  • flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
  • flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
  • flame color — bright reddish-orange.
  • flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
  • flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
  • flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
  • flat season — the part of the year during which flat racing takes place
  • flat-footed — having flatfeet.
  • flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
  • flatten out — to make or become flat or flatter by spreading out
  • flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
  • flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
  • flea collar — a dog or cat collar impregnated with a chemical for repelling or killing fleas.
  • flea powder — powder that is put on an animal's coat to kill or discourage fleas
  • fleetfooted — Swift on one's feet.
  • 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).
  • flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
  • fleshmonger — (archaic) One who deals in flesh; hence, a pimp, procurer, or pander.
  • 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.
  • flintstones — Plural form of flintstone.
  • 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.
  • flocculence — The condition of being flocculent; wooliness, flakiness.
  • flock paper — a wallpaper treated with flock to emphasize a design or effect.
  • flooded gum — any of various eucalyptus trees of Australia, esp Eucalyptus saligna (the Sydney blue gum), that grow in damp soil
  • flooded out — inundated by floodwater
  • floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
  • floor model — a radio, television set, or other furnishing or appliance intended to stand on the floor rather than on a table; console.
  • floor price — a minimum price required of an item being auctioned.
  • floor space — an area on the floor of a premises where objects may be placed
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