11-letter words containing o, f, s, t, r
- favouritism — (British) The unfair favouring of one person or group at the expense of another.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- fergusonite — a rare-earth mineral, yttrium columbate and tantalate, found in pegmatites.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- figurations — Plural form of figuration.
- filtrations — Plural form of filtration.
- finger post — a post with one or more directional signs, terminating in a pointed finger or hand.
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first floor — the ground floor of a building.
- first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- fletschhorn — a mountain in S Switzerland, in the Pennine Alps. 13,110 feet (3999 meters).
- flirtations — Plural form of flirtation.
- flirtatious — given or inclined to flirtation.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- florentines — Plural form of florentine.
- flote grass — an aquatic perennial grass, Glyceria fluitans, whose metre-long stems and pale green leaves are often seen floating in still or sluggish water. The related sweet grass (G. plicata) has broader, darker leaves and owes its name to the fact that cattle like to eat it
- flourisheth — Archaic third-person singular form of flourish.
- fluorescent — possessing the property of fluorescence; exhibiting fluorescence.
- fluoridates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoridate.
- fluorinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluorinate.
- 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.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- foetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- folklorists — Plural form of folklorist.
- food desert — an area, usually low-income, in which many residents cannot easily get to stores that sell affordable, healthful foods.
- foot guards — (in Britain) an infantry unit forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- footlockers — Plural form of footlocker.
- footscraper — a metal bar, set in a small frame and attached to a doorstep, used in cleaning mud from the bottoms of the shoes before entering a house.
- footslogger — Common term for a foot soldier. A person who footslogs.
- footsoldier — Alternative spelling of foot soldier.
- for a start — to begin with, in the first place
- forecasters — Plural form of forecaster.
- forecasting — Present participle of forecast.
- forecastles — Plural form of forecastle.
- foredestine — (rare) predestine.
- forefathers — Plural form of forefather.
- foregathers — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foregather.
- foremastman — a sailor positioned before the foremast
- foremothers — Plural form of foremother.
- foreshorten — Fine Arts. to reduce or distort (parts of a represented object that are not parallel to the picture plane) in order to convey the illusion of three-dimensional space as perceived by the human eye: often done according to the rules of perspective.
- foresighted — Having or using foresight.
- forest fire — uncontrolled fire in a woodland area
- forest hill — a town in N Texas.