11-letter words containing n, o, r, e, f, i
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- field grown — (of a plant) grown in a field rather than in a pot or other artificial environment
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- finger food — food intended to be picked up with the fingers and eaten.
- finger hole — one of a set of holes for the finger on the rotating dial of a telephone.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.
- fisherwomen — Plural form of fisherwoman.
- fishmongers — Plural form of fishmonger.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- 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.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- fluorescein — an orange-red, crystalline, water-insoluble solid, C 20 H 12 O 5 , that in alkaline solutions produces an orange color and an intense green fluorescence: used to trace subterranean waters and in dyes.
- fluorescing — Present participle of fluoresce.
- fluorinated — Simple past tense and past participle of fluorinate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- foraminated — porous; perforated with small holes
- foraminifer — any chiefly marine protozoan of the sarcodinian order Foraminifera, typically having a linear, spiral, or concentric shell perforated by small holes or pores through which pseudopodia extend.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- foreclosing — Present participle of foreclose.
- foredestine — (rare) predestine.
- foredooming — Present participle of foredoom.
- forefingers — the first finger next to the thumb.
- 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.
- foreign key — (database) A column in a database table containing values that are also found in some primary key column (of a different table). By extension, any reference to entities of a different type. Some RDBMSs allow a column to be explicitly labelled as a foreign key and only allow values to be inserted if they already exist in the relevant primary key column.
- foreignisms — Plural form of foreignism.
- foreignness — of, relating to, or derived from another country or nation; not native: foreign cars.
- foreknowing — Present participle of foreknow.
- foremanship — The position of a foreman.
- forerunning — Present participle of forerun.
- foreshowing — Present participle of foreshow.
- foresignify — to signify in advance
- forestation — the planting of forests.
- foretelling — Present participle of foretell.
- forethinker — someone who forethinks
- forewarning — to warn in advance.
- forgiveness — act of forgiving; state of being forgiven.
- forinstance — a case or occurrence of anything: fresh instances of oppression.
- forswearing — Present participle of forswear.
- forte-piano — loud and then immediately soft