10-letter words containing a, c, r, d
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.
- false-card — to play a false card.
- farfetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feedbacker — One who provides feedback.
- fieldcraft — (military) The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
- flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forecaddie — a caddie positioned on the course at a distance from the tee or a given lie, to locate balls after they are hit.
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- fratricide — a person who kills his or her brother.
- freddy mac — (in the US) an informal name for the Federal Home Loan Mortgage Corporation, a private company that buys and sells mortgage debt
- fredericia — a port in Denmark, in E Jutland at the N end of the Little Belt. Pop: 37 054 (2004 est)
- freelanced — Simple past tense and past participle of freelance.
- fricandeau — a loin of veal, larded and braised, or roasted.
- fricasseed — meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- gasconader — A great boaster; a blusterer.
- god's acre — a cemetery, especially one adjacent to a church; churchyard.
- gramicidin — a crystalline, water-insoluble antibiotic obtained from tyrothrycin by extraction, used chiefly in treating local infections caused by Gram-positive organisms.
- grand chop — (in China and India trade) a customs clearance.
- grand coup — the trumping of a trick that could have been taken by the winner's partner.
- grandchild — a child of one's son or daughter.
- grandniece — a daughter of one's nephew or niece.
- granduncle — an uncle of one's father or mother; a great-uncle.
- green card — an official card, originally green, issued by the U.S. government to foreign nationals permitting them to work in the U.S.
- guard cell — either of two specialized epidermal cells that flank the pore of a stoma and usually cause it to open and close.
- guardiance — (obsolete) guardianship.
- hack board — Falconry. a board or platform at which hawks being flown at hack are fed.
- hand cream — a cream that you put on your hands to make them feel softer and smoother
- hand cruft — (jargon) (After "hand craft") To write something by hand that would be better done automatically, e.g. writing assembly language instead of using a compiler (see hand hacking).
- hand screw — a screw that can be tightened by the fingers, without the aid of a tool.
- hand truck — truck1 (def 3).
- hand-carry — to carry or deliver by hand, as for security reasons: The ambassador hand-carried a message from the president.
- handcrafts — Plural form of handcraft.
- handicraft — manual skill.
- handscroll — A traditional Asian scroll that unfolds horizontally so that the reader can view one section at a time while holding it in the hands.
- hard candy — candy, often fruit flavored, made by boiling together sugar and corn syrup.
- hard cider — the juice pressed from apples (or formerly from some other fruit) used for drinking, either before fermentation (sweet cider) or after fermentation (hard cider) or for making applejack, vinegar, etc.
- hard court — a tennis court having a concrete or asphalt surface.
- hard crash — (programming) When a program stops running completely and unexpectedly, often due to external events, e.g. the CPU overheating or an unrecoverable memory error. See also disk crash.
- hard peach — a clingstone peach.
- hard sauce — a mixture of butter and confectioners' sugar, often with flavoring and cream.
- hard-coded — (jargon) (By analogy with "hard-wired") Said of a data value or behaviour written directly into a program, possibly in multiple places, where it cannot be easily modified. There are several alternatives, depending on how often the value is likely to change. It may be replaced with a compile-time constant, such as a C "#define" macro, in which case a change will still require recompilation; or it may be read at run time from a profile, resource (see de-rezz), or environment variable that a user can easily modify; or it may be read as part of the program's input data. To change something hard-coded requires recompilation (if using a compiled language of course) but, more seriously, it requires sufficient understanding of the implementation to be sure that the change will not introduce inconsistency and cause the program to fail. For example, "The line terminator is hard-coded as newline; who in their right mind would use anything else?" See magic number.
- hard-faced — cheeky
- hard-knock — beset with hardship.