10-letter words containing a, c, i, f
- fricasseed — meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- fricassees — Plural form of fricassee.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- frictional — of, relating to, or of the nature of friction.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fungicidal — a substance or preparation, as a spray or dust, used for destroying fungi.
- funiculars — Plural form of funicular.
- funiculate — having a funicle.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- grassfinch — any of several Australian weaverbirds, especially of the genus Poephila.
- half hitch — a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
- half-hitch — a knot or hitch made by forming a bight and passing the end of the rope around the standing part and through the bight.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- handicraft — manual skill.
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- in back of — the rear part of the human body, extending from the neck to the lower end of the spine.
- in case of — as a precaution against
- in face of — despite
- inaffected — (obsolete) unaffected.
- inefficacy — lack of power or capacity to produce the desired effect.
- infarction — the formation of an infarct.
- info basic — Variant of Pick BASIC used with PRIME's PRIMOS.
- infomaniac — a person who has infomania.
- informatic — Of or pertaining to information science, the processing of information.
- infraclass — A taxonomic category that ranks below a subclass.
- infraction — breach; violation; infringement: an infraction of the rules.
- infrasonic — noting or pertaining to a sound wave with a frequency below the audio-frequency range.
- interfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interface.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- jack-knife — a large pocketknife.
- jackknifed — Simple past tense and past participle of jackknife.
- jackknifes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jackknife.
- java finch — a finchlike weaverbird, Padda oryzivora, of southeastern Asia, having gray plumage tinged with pink on the belly, often kept as a cage bird.
- kissy-face — affectionate kissing; necking: playing kissy-face.
- lancetfish — any large, marine fish of the genus Alepisaurus, having daggerlike teeth.
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- life class — nude drawing lesson
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- life space — a spatial representation of all the forces that control a person's behaviour
- lifehacker — One who uses lifehacks.
- lifejacket — a sleeveless jacket of buoyant or inflatable construction, for supporting the wearer in deep water and preventing drowning.
- light face — a type characterized by thin, light lines. This is a sample of lightface.
- lightfaced — Written, printed or drawn in lightface using a font that has a low ration of ink to white space. The opposite of boldfaced.
- lightfaces — Plural form of lightface.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- mafficking — to celebrate with extravagant public demonstrations.