10-letter words containing a, f, r
- 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.
- facinorous — extremely wicked
- 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.
- factionary — a member of a faction
- factorable — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorials — Plural form of factorial.
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.
- factorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of factorize.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- 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 catch — a catch of a kicked ball in which the receiver signals that he or she will not advance the ball and therefore may not be interfered with or tackled.
- 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.
- fairground — Often, fairgrounds. a place where fairs, horse races, etc., are held; in the U.S. usually an area set aside by a city, county, or state for an annual fair and often containing exhibition buildings.
- fairminded — Alternative form of fair-minded.
- fairy lamp — a lamp using a candle as the source of illumination, usually constructed of glass or ceramic material, set on a metal base, and having a fabric shade.
- fairy lily — a Texan bulbous plant, Zephyranthes drummondii, of the amaryllis family, having a fragrant white flower, with a reddish outer surface, that blooms at night.
- fairy ring — any of numerous mushrooms of meadows and open woods, especially the well-known Marasmius oreades, that spread in rings originating from mycelial growth: formerly supposed to mark the paths laid by dancing fairies.
- 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.
- fairyfloss — a very light fluffy confection made from coloured spun sugar, usually held on a stick
- fairytales — Plural form of fairytale.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- falciparum — The parasitic protozoan Plasmodium falciparum that causes falciparum malaria.
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- fall apart — physically: into pieces
- fall front — a part of a desk front, hinged at the lower end and opening out to provide a writing surface.
- fall river — a seaport in SE Massachusetts, on an arm of Narragansett Bay.
- fall short — not be satisfactory
- fall under — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallboards — Plural form of fallboard.
- 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.
- familiarly — commonly or generally known or seen: a familiar sight.
- family car — a car suitable for a family
- 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.
- fangirling — Present participle of fangirl.
- 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.