11-letter words containing n, e, d, f
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- fidgetiness — The state or condition of being fidgety.
- field drain — an underground earthenware pipe used for draining fields
- field event — an event in a track meet that involves throwing something, as a discus or javelin, or jumping and is not performed on the running track.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- fieldstones — Plural form of fieldstone.
- 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.
- finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
- finedrawing — Present participle of finedraw.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerguard — something that protects the fingers
- 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.
- fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fixed point — (mathematics) The fixed point of a function, f is any value, x for which f x = x. A function may have any number of fixed points from none (e.g. f x = x+1) to infinitely many (e.g. f x = x). The fixed point combinator, written as either "fix" or "Y" will return the fixed point of a function. See also least fixed point.
- fixed-point — (programming) A number representation scheme where a number, F is represented by an integer I such that F=I*R^-P, where R is the (assumed) radix of the representation and P is the (fixed) number of digits after the radix point. On computers with no floating-point unit, fixed-point calculations are significantly faster than floating-point as all the operations are basically integer operations. Fixed-point representation also has the advantage of having uniform density, i.e., the smallest resolvable difference of the representation is R^-P throughout the representable range, in contrast to floating-point representations. For example, in PL/I, FIXED data has both a precision and a scale-factor (P above). So a number declared as 'FIXED DECIMAL(7,2)' has a precision of seven and a scale-factor of two, indicating five integer and two fractional decimal digits. The smallest difference between numbers will be 0.01.
- flank speed — the maximum possible speed of a ship.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- flea-ridden — infested with fleas
- flesh wound — a wound that does not penetrate beyond the flesh; a slight or superficial wound.
- floundering — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- fluid ounce — a measure of capacity equal to 1/16 (0.0625) pint (29.6 milliliters) in the U.S., and equal to 1/20 (0.05) of an imperial pint (28.4 milliliters) in Great Britain. Symbol: f. Abbreviation: fl. oz;
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- flying head — a read/write head supported on a thin cushion of air over a rotating magnetic disk.
- food pollen — infertile pollen produced by some plants that attracts insects and thus aids pollination
- 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.
- foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foredestine — (rare) predestine.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- foregrounds — Plural form of foreground.
- foreign aid — economic, technical, or military aid given by one nation to another for purposes of relief and rehabilitation, for economic stabilization, or for mutual defense.
- forest land — Forest land is land that is mainly covered by forest.
- forestlands — Plural form of forestland.
- fork-tender — (of food, especially meat) cooked so that it can be cut or pierced easily with a fork.
- fort devens — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Massachusetts, SW of Ayer.
- forwardness — overreadiness to push oneself forward; lack of appropriate modesty; presumption; boldness.
- foundership — The condition of having founded something.
- four-handed — involving four hands or players, as a game at cards: Bridge is usually a four-handed game.
- fourdrinier — a machine for manufacturing paper.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- frankenfood — (colloquial, derogatory) genetically modified food.
- frankenword — (neologism) A word formed by combining two (or more) other words; a portmanteau.
- frankpledge — a system of dividing a community into tithings or groups of ten men, each member of which was responsible for the conduct of the other members of his group and for the assurance that a member charged with a breach of the law would be produced at court.
- fraternized — Simple past tense and past participle of fraternize.
- fraudulence — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- fraudulency — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.