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11-letter words containing o, n, f, i

  • fractionlet — a small piece
  • francomania — an obsession with France or French things
  • francophile — friendly to or having a strong liking for France or the French.
  • frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
  • frappuccino — Iced cappuccino.
  • fredericton — a province in SE Canada, E of Maine. 27,985 sq. mi. (72,480 sq. km). Capital: Fredericton.
  • freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
  • freecooling — a system that uses low ambient air temperature to chill water, esp for use in air conditioning
  • freeholding — Property held in freehold.
  • freeloading — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
  • freight ton — ton1 (def 2).
  • freight-ton — a unit of weight, equivalent to 2000 pounds (0.907 metric ton) avoirdupois (short ton) in the U.S. and 2240 pounds (1.016 metric tons) avoirdupois (long ton) in Great Britain.
  • friar minor — a friar belonging to the branch of the Franciscan order that observes the strict rule of St. Francis. Compare capuchin (def 4), Friar Minor Conventual.
  • friend-zone — Slang. to put (someone) in the friend zone: He wonders why he's always getting friend-zoned by women he likes.
  • friendswood — a city in SE Texas.
  • frigid zone — either of two regions, one between the Arctic Circle and the North Pole, or one between the Antarctic Circle and the South Pole.
  • friponnerie — an act of roguery
  • front-drive — (of an automotive vehicle) having front-wheel drive.
  • frontolysis — Meteorology. the dissipation or decrease of a front or frontal zone.
  • frost point — the temperature of the air at which hoarfrost begins to form.
  • frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
  • frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
  • fructuation — the process of producing fruit
  • frustration — act of frustrating; state of being frustrated: the frustration of the president's efforts.
  • fucoxanthin — a brown carotenoid pigment occurring in brown algae, diatoms, and dinoflagellates.
  • fulguration — to flash or dart like lightning.
  • full cousin — cousin (def 1).
  • fulmination — a violent denunciation or censure: a sermon that was one long fulmination.
  • fulminatory — Thundering; striking terror.
  • functionals — Plural form of functional.
  • functionary — a person who functions in a specified capacity, especially in government service; an official: civil servants, bureaucrats, and other functionaries.
  • functionate — to perform a function; to carry out one's work or duty
  • functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • fundholding — (economics) The holding of a fund.
  • funduscopic — Relating to funduscopy.
  • fungivorous — feeding on fungi, as certain insects.
  • furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
  • furiousness — The state or quality of being furious or outraged; enragement; inflamedness.
  • furloughing — Present participle of furlough.
  • furthcoming — an action raised to recover property which has been arrested in the hands of a third party
  • fushionless — lacking strength or spirit
  • fusillation — the use of shooting as a method of capital punishment, esp during warfare
  • fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
  • fusion food — food which is made using a style of cooking which combines traditional Western techniques and ingredients with those used in Eastern cuisine
  • fustigation — A beating with a club.
  • genuflexion — Alternative spelling of genuflection.
  • get wind of — hear rumours of
  • go flatline — [Cyberpunk SF, refers to flattening of EEG traces upon brain-death] also "flatlined". 1. To die, terminate, or fail, especially irreversibly. In hacker parlance, this is used of machines only, human death being considered somewhat too serious a matter to employ jargon-jokes about. 2. To go completely quiescent; said of machines undergoing controlled shutdown. "You can suffer file damage if you shut down Unix but power off before the system has gone flatline." 3. Of a video tube, to fail by losing vertical scan, so all one sees is a bright horizontal line bisecting the screen.
  • god-fearing — deeply respectful or fearful of God.
  • gold fixing — the procedure by which the price of gold is established.
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