11-letter words containing r, e, t, i, l
- exhilarator — a person who, or thing which, exhilarates
- explicatory — Explanatory; serving to explain logically or in detail.
- exploration — The action of traveling in or through an unfamiliar area in order to learn about it.
- explorative — Exploratory.
- externalise — Alternative spelling of externalize.
- externalism — Excessive regard for outward form in religion.
- externalist — (epistemology) Contending that there are non-internal factors which can affect the justificatory status of a belief.
- externality — A side effect or consequence of an industrial or commercial activity that affects other parties without this being reflected in the cost of the goods or services involved, such as the pollination of surrounding crops by bees kept for honey.
- externalize — Give external existence or form to.
- extorsively — in an extorsive manner
- extractible — Capable of being extracted.
- extrinsical — (rare) Extrinsic.
- factorylike — Resembling a factory in any of various respects.
- false fruit — a fruit, as the apple, strawberry, or pineapple, that contains, in addition to a mature ovary and seeds, a significant amount of other tissue.
- falteringly — to hesitate or waver in action, purpose, intent, etc.; give way: Her courage did not falter at the prospect of hardship.
- family tree — a genealogical chart showing the ancestry, descent, and relationship of all members of a family or other genealogical group.
- farthingale — a hoop skirt or framework for expanding a woman's skirt, worn in the 16th and 17th centuries.
- faultfinder — a person who habitually finds fault, complains, or objects, especially in a petty way.
- featherlike — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- felicitator — to compliment upon a happy event; congratulate.
- ferntickles — freckles
- fertileness — (rare) The state or characteristic of being fertile.
- fertilisers — Plural form of fertiliser.
- fertilising — Present participle of fertilise.
- fertilities — Plural form of fertility.
- fertilizers — Plural form of fertilizer.
- fertilizing — Present participle of fertilize.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- field trial — a competition among sporting dogs under natural conditions in the field, in which the animals are judged on the basis of excellence of performance in hunting.
- field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
- filamentary — pertaining to or of the nature of a filament.
- filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- filter cake — the solid material accumulated by a filter press
- filter lane — a lane governed by a filter at a traffic light, from which traffic can turn left or right while other traffic is held up by a red light
- filter pump — a vacuum pump used to assist laboratory filtrations in which a jet of water inside a glass tube entrains air molecules from the system to be evacuated
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- fingerplate — a metal plate fixed to a door next to the handle or keyhole to protect the surface
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- fire beetle — any of numerous click beetles of the genus Pyrophorus, of tropical America, having luminous reddish or greenish spots on the body.
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
- firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
- firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
- first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- fletcherism — the practice of chewing food until it is reduced to a finely divided, liquefied mass: advocated by Horace Fletcher, 1849–1919, U.S. nutritionist.
- flexicurity — a welfare-state model, originating in Denmark in the 1990s, that combines labour-market flexibility, social security, and a proactive labour market