11-letter words containing o, n, f, i
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- 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.
- flourishing — growing vigorously; thriving; prosperous: a flourishing little business.
- floweriness — The quality of being flowery.
- flowingness — the quality of being flowing
- fluctuation — continual change from one point or condition to another.
- flucytosine — a synthetic whitish crystalline powder, C 4 H 4 FN 3 O, with antifungal activity, used in the treatment of systemic and eye fungal infections caused by susceptible strains of Candida or Cryptococcus.
- 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;
- 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.
- flustration — the state of being flustrated or flustered
- fluticasone — (organic compound) A synthetic corticosteroid whose furoate and propionate forms are used as topical anti-inflammatories.
- fluvoxamine — an antidepressant drug that acts by preventing the re-uptake after release of serotonin in the brain, thereby prolonging its action
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- flying bomb — robot bomb.
- flying bond — a brickwork bond having random, widely spaced headers.
- flying frog — either of two East Indian frogs, Rhacophorus nigrapalmatus and R. pardalis, having broadly webbed feet permitting long, gliding leaps.
- flying moor — the act of mooring a vessel between two anchors, the first dropped while the vessel is under way.
- flying-spot — denoting an electronic system in which a rapidly moving spot of light is used to encode or decode data, for example to obtain a television signal by scanning a photographic film or slide
- foam piping — Foam piping is a system of tubes which delivers a mass of very small bubbles to the base of tanks for protection from fire.
- focal point — Also called principal focus. Optics. either of two points on the axis of a mirror, lens, or other optical system, one point being such that rays diverging from it are deviated parallel to the axis upon refraction or reflection by the system and the other point being such that rays parallel to the axis of the system converge to the point upon refraction or reflection by the system.
- folding top — A folding top is a soft roof of a vehicle that can be folded down or removed.
- folk singer — a singer who specializes in folk songs, usually providing his or her own accompaniment on a guitar.
- folkishness — The quality of being folkish.
- folktronica — a musical genre that combines elements from folk and electronic music
- fomentation — encouragement of discord, rebellion, etc.; instigation.
- food grains — the small hard seedlike fruits of a grass, esp a cereal plant, used as a foodstuff
- foolishness — resulting from or showing a lack of sense; ill-considered; unwise: a foolish action, a foolish speech.
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
- foppishness — The characteristic or quality of being foppish.
- for certain — free from doubt or reservation; confident; sure: I am certain he will come.
- for nothing — freely, free
- 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
- forcing bid — a bid, often at a higher level than is required, that is understood to oblige the bidder's partner to reply
- forcipation — the state or condition of being forcipated
- 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.