11-letter words containing s, r, d
- escadrilles — Plural form of escadrille.
- escape road — a road, usually ending in a pile of sand, provided on a hill for a driver to drive into if his brakes fail or on a bend if he loses control of the turn
- escort duty — a military duty in which one or more servicemen accompany a person, group of people, or vehicle, for protection, guidance, restraint, or as a mark of honour
- espadrilles — Plural form of espadrille.
- estremadura — a region of W Spain: arid and sparsely populated except in the valleys of the Tagus and Guardiana rivers. Area: 41 593 sq km (16 059 sq miles)
- eudiometers — Plural form of eudiometer.
- eurodeposit — a deposit of the currency of any country in the eurocurrency market
- eurodollars — deposits of U.S. dollars in banks outside the U.S., especially in Europe
- eurypterids — Plural form of eurypterid.
- evesdropper — Archaic form of eavesdropper.
- eviscerated — Disembowel (a person or animal).
- exasperated — Simple past tense and past participle of exasperate.
- fairgrounds — Alternative spelling of fairground; the grounds where a fair is held.
- fancy dress — a costume for a ball, masquerade, etc., chosen to please the fancy, usually a costume characteristic of a particular period or place, class of persons, or historical or fictitious character.
- far distant — at, to, or from a great distance in space or time
- far-sighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fast-fooder — Also, fast-foodery [fast-foo-duh-ree, fahst-] /ˈfæstˈfu də ri, ˈfɑst-/ (Show IPA). a restaurant that sells fast food.
- fatherlands — Plural form of fatherland.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- 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.
- federations — Plural form of federation.
- feed grains — grains used to feed livestock
- fenestrated — having windows; windowed; characterized by windows.
- ferredoxins — Plural form of ferredoxin.
- feudatories — Plural form of feudatory.
- fiddlerfish — any of several guitarfishes, especially Trygonorhina fasciata, of Australia.
- fiduciaries — Plural form of fiduciary.
- 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.
- figureheads — Plural form of figurehead.
- finasteride — a drug, C 23 H 36 N 2 O 2 , that inhibits testosterone metabolism, used in the treatment of benign prostatic hyperplasia and male-pattern baldness.
- 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.
- first aider — someone in an organization who has been trained to give immediate medical help in an emergency
- first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
- first grade — school year: age 6-7
- first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
- first-order — Not higher-order.
- fiscal drag — the process by which, during inflation, rising incomes draw people into higher tax brackets, so that their real incomes may fall; this acts as a restraint on the expansion of the economy
- fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
- fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
- fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
- fishing rod — a long, slender, cylindrical, flexible rod usually made of bamboo, steel, or fiberglass, for use with a reel and line in catching fish.
- fixed trust — unit trust (def 1).
- 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.
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flatlanders — Plural form of flatlander.
- floodwaters — The waters of a flood.
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.