10-letter words containing a, l, f, r
- frontstall — chanfron.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- frugalness — The property of being frugal.
- fulgurated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulgurate.
- full board — accommodation: room and meals
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
- full-grain — (of leather) having the original grain surface intact.
- fulminator — One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
- funeralize — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- funereally — In a funereal manner.
- funiculars — Plural form of funicular.
- furuncular — boil2 .
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- gag reflex — involuntary retching
- gal friday — Older Use: Sometimes Offensive. a woman who acts as a general assistant in a business office or to an executive and has a wide variety of especially secretarial and clerical duties.
- gale-force — A gale-force wind is a very strong wind.
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- glandiform — (anatomy) Shaped like, resembling, or characteristic of glands.
- gracefully — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- grainfield — a field in which grain is grown.
- gram flour — flour prepared from the gram seeds
- gratefully — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- green flag — (in automobile racing) a green-colored flag that is used to signal the start of a race.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- half board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half frame — a photograph taking up half the normal area of a frame on a particular film, taken esp on 35-millimetre film
- half rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-arsed — incompetent; inept; badly organized
- half-board — demi-pension (def 1).
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- half-crazy — somewhat crazy or insane
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-grown — advanced in growth: a grown boy.
- half-hardy — having moderate resistance to cold temperatures.
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- half-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
- half-right — in accordance with what is good, proper, or just: right conduct.
- half-round — semicircular in cross section, as a molding or piece of type.
- half-share — a share, as in profits, equal to one half.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- half-truth — a statement that is only partly true, especially one intended to deceive, evade blame, or the like.
- halfhourly — half-hour (def 3).