10-letter words containing a, n, f, r
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- fortran 66 — Fortran IV standardised. ASA X3.9-1966.
- fortran 77 — A popular version of Fortran with Block IF, PARAMETER and SAVE statements added, but still no WHILE. It has fixed-length character strings, format-free I/O, and arrays with lower bounds.
- fortran 90 — (Previously "Fortran 8x" and "Fortran Extended") An extensive enlargement of Fortran 77. Fortran 90 has derived types, assumed shape arrays, array sections, functions returning arrays, case statement, module subprograms and internal subprograms, optional and keyword subprogram arguments, recursion, and dynamic allocation. It is defined in ISO 1539:1991, soon to be adopted by ANSI.
- fortran ii — 1958. Added subroutines.
- fortran iv — IBM 1962. For the IBM 7090/94. Many implementations went well beyond the original definition.
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fracturing — Present participle of fracture.
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- fragrances — Plural form of fragrance.
- fragrantly — having a pleasant scent or aroma; sweet-smelling; sweet-scented: a fragrant rose.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- francis ii — Francis I (def 2).
- franciscan — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- franconian — a group of West Germanic dialects or languages, consisting of Frankish and the dialects descended from Frankish.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
- frangipani — a perfume prepared from or imitating the odor of the flower of a tropical American tree or shrub, Plumeria rubra, of the dogbane family.
- frankfurts — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- franklinia — a shrub or small tree, Franklinia alatamaha, of the tea family, originally native to the SE U.S. and now found only in cultivation, having glossy leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- fraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- fraternize — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- frauenfeld — a canton in NE Switzerland. 388 sq. mi. (1005 sq. km). Capital: Frauenfeld.
- fraughting — Present participle of fraught.
- fraunhofer — Joseph von [joh-zuh f von,, -suh f;; German yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf vɒn,, -səf;; German ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1787–1826, German optician and physicist.
- fraxinella — gas plant.
- freakiness — freakish.