11-letter words containing fi

fire screen — a screen placed in front of a fireplace for protection, especially from sparks.
fire temple — a place of worship for Zoroastrians.
fire warden — an official assigned to prevent or fight fires, as in a forest, logging operation, camp, or town
fire-polish — to smooth (glass) by reheating to remove tool marks or other imperfections in the surface.
fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
firecracker — a paper or cardboard cylinder filled with an explosive and having a fuse, for discharging to make a noise, as during a celebration.
firefighter — a person who fights destructive fires.
firelighter — Small block of flammable substance, typically sawdust and wax combined, used to light fires.
firemasters — Plural form of firemaster.
fireproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of fireproof.
firesetting — The setting of fires; arson.
firestarter — One who starts fires.
firewatcher — A person who looks for the onset of fires, normally from a high vantage point.
firing line — Military. the positions at which troops are stationed to fire upon the enemy or targets. the troops firing from this line.
firmamental — Of or pertaining to the firmament or heavens.
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 cause — God.
first fleet — the fleet of convict ships that arrived at Port Jackson in 1788
first floor — the ground floor of a building.
first grade — school year: age 6-7
first light — dawn.
first mover — the Aristotelian conception of God as the unmoved mover of everything else
first night — opening night.
first reich — the Holy Roman Empire until its dissolution in 1806.
first state — Delaware (used as a nickname).
first thing — being before all others with respect to time, order, rank, importance, etc., used as the ordinal number of one: the first edition; the first vice president.
first water — (formerly) the highest degree of fineness in a diamond or other precious stone. Compare water (def 13).
first world — the major industrialized non-Communist nations, including those in Western Europe, the United States, Canada, and Japan.
first-class — of the highest or best class or quality: a first-class movie.
first-order — Not higher-order.
first-timer — a person who does, experiences, or attends something for the first time.
firstfruits — the fruits first gathered in a season
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
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 course — A fish course is a part of a meal in which fish is served, usually before the entrée.
fish doctor — a scaleless, brightly colored eelpout, Gymnelis viridis, of Arctic waters.
fish farmer — someone who rears fish for commercial purposes
fish finger — Fish fingers are small long pieces of fish covered in breadcrumbs. They are usually sold in frozen form.
fish kettle — an oval pan used for cooking a whole fish
fish ladder — a series of ascending pools constructed to enable salmon or other fish to swim upstream around or over a dam.
fish manure — solid waste from fish, used as a fertilizer
fish market — a market selling fish
fish tackle — a tackle for fishing an anchor.
fish warden — a public official who enforces game laws relating to fish.
fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
fisher king — (in the story of Percival) the custodian of the Grail.
fisherwoman — a woman who fishes, whether for profit or pleasure.

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