10-letter words containing a, f, r, c
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- patrifocal — focused or centered on the father.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- profligacy — shameless dissoluteness.
- queencraft — the art of queenly rule
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- radiciform — resembling a root
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- reflex arc — the nerve pathways followed by an impulse during a reflex.
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- resurfaced — to give a new surface to.
- resurfacer — a machine or tool used for resurfacing
- rifampicin — a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, meningitis, and leprosy
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- roof space — the attic space inside a roof
- rotorcraft — a rotary-wing aircraft.
- saccharify — to convert (starch) into sugar.
- sacrificed — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- sacrificer — the offering of animal, plant, or human life or of some material possession to a deity, as in propitiation or homage.
- safety car — life car.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- scar-faced — with a face marked by a scar or scars.
- scarf-ring — a ring which holds a scarf in place
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.
- scarifying — critical
- schefflera — any of various tropical trees or shrubs belonging to the genus Schefflera, of the ginseng family, having glossy, palmately compound leaves and often cultivated as a houseplant.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- scrum half — a player who puts in the ball at scrums and tries to get it away to his three-quarter backs
- scuff mark — Scuff marks are marks made on a smooth surface when something is rubbed against it.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- smithcraft — the work or craft of a smith
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- spacecraft — a vehicle designed for travel or operation in space beyond the earth's atmosphere or in orbit around the earth.
- stagecraft — skill in or the art of writing, adapting, or staging plays.