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11-letter words containing fe

  • kerr effect — the double refraction of light in certain substances, produced by an electric field.
  • knife pleat — a sharply creased narrow pleat, usually one of a series folded in the same direction.
  • knife river — a river in W central North Dakota, flowing E to the Missouri River. 165 miles (265 km) long.
  • knife-edged — having a thin, sharp edge.
  • knife-point — the sharp tip of a knife.
  • knifepoints — Plural form of knifepoint.
  • lactiferous — producing or secreting milk: lactiferous glands.
  • lactoferrin — a glycoprotein present in milk, especially human milk, and supplying iron to suckling infants.
  • lake effect — the phenomena created in the surrounding area by weather passing over a large lake, especially any of the Great Lakes of the U.S.
  • lake-effect — caused or greatly influenced by the moist air above a large lake
  • lassa fever — a highly contagious viral disease, largely confined to central West Africa, characterized by fever, difficulty in swallowing, and inflammation of the pharynx, often progressing to infect the lungs, heart, and kidneys, leading to death.
  • lethiferous — lethal.
  • licence fee — an annual fee paid by television users in the UK
  • life estate — property that may be held only for the extent of the holder's lifetime
  • life guards — (in Britain) a cavalry regiment forming part of the ceremonial guard of the monarch.
  • life jacket — a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable construction, for supporting the wearer in deep water and preventing drowning.
  • life lesson — something from which useful knowledge or principles can be learned
  • life member — If you are a life member of a club or organization, you have paid or been chosen to be a member for the rest of your life.
  • life skills — everyday coping strategies
  • life's work — Someone's life's work or life work is the main activity that they have been involved in during their life, or their most important achievement.
  • life-giving — imparting, or having the ability to impart, life or vitality; invigorating; vitalizing: life-giving love and praise.
  • life-saving — a person who rescues another from danger of death, especially from drowning.
  • lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
  • lifecasting — The creation of a three-dimensional copy of a living body by means of molding and casting techniques.
  • lifemanship — the ability to conduct one's life, career, personal relationships, etc., in a successful manner.
  • loosestrife — any of various plants belonging to the genus Lysimachia, of the primrose family, having clusters of usually yellow flowers, as L. vulgaris (garden loosestrife) or L. quadrifolia (whorled loosestrife)
  • loriciferan — (zoology) Any of several marine animals of the phylum Loricifera.
  • magherafelt — a district of N Northern Ireland, in Co Londonderry. Pop: 40 837 (2003 est). Area: 572 sq km (221 sq miles)
  • main-de-fer — manifer.
  • malfeasance — the performance by a public official of an act that is legally unjustified, harmful, or contrary to law; wrongdoing (used especially of an act in violation of a public trust). Compare misfeasance (def 2), nonfeasance.
  • malta fever — brucellosis.
  • mammiferous — having mammae; mammalian.
  • manifestant — a person who initiates or participates in a public demonstration; demonstrator.
  • manifesting — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
  • manifestoes — Plural form of manifesto.
  • manniferous — resulting in or producing manna
  • marine life — plants and animals of the sea
  • mass defect — the amount by which the mass of an atomic nucleus differs from the sum of the masses of its constituent particles, being the mass equivalent of the energy released in the formation of the nucleus.
  • melliferous — yielding or producing honey.
  • metafemales — Plural form of metafemale.
  • misfeasance — a wrong, actual or alleged, arising from or consisting of affirmative action.
  • misfeatured — Having ugly or misshapen features.
  • montefeltro — an Italian noble family who ruled Urbino from the 13th to the 16th century. Federigo Montefeltro, duke of Urbino (1422–82), was a noted patron of the arts and military leader
  • mortiferous — deadly; fatal.
  • mothproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of mothproof.
  • mothproofer — an agent that prevents moths from destroying materials or garments
  • non-feeling — the function or the power of perceiving by touch.
  • nonfeasance — the omission of some act that ought to have been performed. Compare malfeasance, misfeasance (def 2).
  • nonfeminist — a person who is not a feminist
  • noninfected — not infected or subject to infection
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