11-letter words containing l, o, r
- fallow-deer — a Eurasian deer, Dama dama, with a fallow or yellowish coat.
- false color — photography using infrared-sensitive film that produces images in which heat-emitting areas or objects appear red.
- false front — a façade falsifying the size, finish, or importance of a building, especially one having a humble purpose or cheap construction.
- false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
- family hour — any broadcast period from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. when programs of general interest to the family are broadcast.
- family room — a room in a house used as a center for family activities.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fatal error — (programming, operating system) Any error which causes abrupt termination of the program. The program may be terminated either by itself or by the operating system (a "fatal exception"). In the former instance, the program contains code which catches the error and, as a result, returns to the operating system or calls an operating system service to terminate the program.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
- ferronickel — a ferroalloy containing up to 45 percent nickel.
- fervourless — Without fervour.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- fieldworker — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- 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.
- film colour — a misty appearance produced when no lines or edges are present in the visual field
- filmography — a collection of writings about motion pictures, especially detailed essays dealing with specific films.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- 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.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first floor — the ground floor of a building.
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- flagellator — Someone who flagellates, a whipper.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flame color — bright reddish-orange.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- flap-dragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flapperhood — (in the 1920s) the condition of flappers, the state of being a flapper
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flat-rolled — (of steel or other metal) rolled into flat sheets, strips, etc.
- flavourings — Plural form of flavouring.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.