10-letter words containing a, f, r, e
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- dwarf male — a male animal that is much smaller, and often internally simpler, than its female counterpart. Dwarf males are commonly carried by the female, as in species of angler fish
- ear fungus — a smooth, reddish-brown ear-shaped fungus, Otidia smithii, abundant in North America.
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.
- effigurate — having a definite shape or form
- effleurage — a delicate stroking motion in massage.
- effraction — a breaking into a house, store, etc., by force; forcible entry.
- enfleurage — The extraction of essential oils and perfumes from flowers using odorless animal or vegetable fats.
- enforcable — Misspelling of enforceable.
- engrafting — Present participle of engraft.
- exfiltrate — Withdraw (troops or spies) surreptitiously, especially from a dangerous position.
- exfoliator — An exfoliant.
- fabricable — able to be formed or shaped; capable of being constructed or manufactured.
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fabricate.
- face cream — Face cream is a thick substance that you rub into your face in order to keep it soft.
- face guard — a guard used to protect a player's face
- face-saver — something that saves one's prestige or dignity: Allow him the face-saver of resigning instead of being fired.
- facebooker — A person using the social networking website Facebook.
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factorable — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.
- factorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of factorize.
- fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
- fair shake — an equitable opportunity or treatment: The judges promised that every entrant in the contest would get a fair shake.
- fair trade — legal or ethical commerce
- fair-sized — quite big
- fair-trade — to sell (a commodity) under a fair-trade agreement.
- fairminded — Alternative form of fair-minded.
- fairy tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairy-tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairytales — Plural form of fairytale.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- fall river — a seaport in SE Massachusetts, on an arm of Narragansett Bay.
- fall under — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- false ribs — any of the lower five ribs on either side of the body, which are not directly attached to the sternum.
- false-card — to play a false card.
- falseworks — Plural form of falsework.
- falsifiers — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- fan heater — a space heater consisting of an electrically heated element with an electrically driven fan to disperse the heat by forced convection
- fan letter — a letter sent by an admiring fan, as to a celebrity.
- fancy fern — a common fern, Dryopteris austriaca spinulosa, having delicate, lacy leaves and used extensively in floral arrangements.
- fancy-free — free from any emotional tie or influence, especially that of love.
- fantasizer — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- far afield — a long distance away
- far-seeing — having foresight; sagacious; discerning.
- farce-meat — forcemeat.
- fare stage — a section of a bus journey for which a set charge is made
- farebeater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.