11-letter words containing s, e, l, f, r
- false-start — to leave the starting line or position too early and thereby necessitate repeating the signal to begin a race.
- familiarise — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- fearfulness — causing or apt to cause fear; frightening: a fearful apparition.
- featherless — Having no feathers.
- featureless — without distinctive features; uninteresting, plain, or drab: a featureless landscape.
- federalists — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of federalize.
- ferntickles — freckles
- ferociously — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferroalloys — Plural form of ferroalloy.
- 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.
- fervourless — Without fervour.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- field sport — Hunting, shooting birds, and fishing with a rod are referred to as field sports when they are done mainly for pleasure.
- field-strip — to take apart (a weapon) for cleaning, lubrication, and repair or for inspection.
- file server — a computer that makes files available to workstations on a network.
- filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- filoviruses — Plural form of filovirus.
- fingerholes — hole in a wind instrument
- fingerlings — Plural form of fingerling.
- fingernails — Plural form of fingernail.
- fingerstall — a covering used to protect a finger.
- fire island — a narrow sand spit off S Long Island, New York: summer resort and lighthouse station. ¼–½ mi. (0.4–0.8 km) wide; 30 miles (48 km) long.
- fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
- fiscal year — any yearly period without regard to the calendar year, at the end of which a firm, government, etc., determines its financial condition.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flagpersons — Plural form of flagperson.
- flameproofs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of flameproof.
- flare stack — A flare stack is a high vertical pipe for carrying unwanted gas so it can be burned off.
- flash drive — Also called flash memory drive, thumb drive, USB drive. a very small, portable, solid-state hard drive that can be inserted into a USB port for storage and retrieval of data.
- flash eprom — Flash Erasable Programmable Read-Only Memory
- flash meter — a meter that measures the light emitted by a flash unit
- flashpacker — a backpacker who has a considerable disposable income
- flat screen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flat silver — silver table utensils, as knives, forks, and spoons.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- flavourless — British standard spelling of flavorless.
- flavoursome — Alternative spelling of flavorsome.
- flea circus — a number of fleas trained to perform tricks, as for a carnival sideshow
- flesh color — (no longer in common use; now considered offensive) a yellowish pink or pinkish cream color (approximating the skin color of a white person).