10-letter words containing a, t, f, i
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- forfaiting — the financial service of discounting, without recourse, a promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, etc, received from an overseas buyer by an exporter; a form of debt discounting
- formaliter — formally
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- 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 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).
- foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- fractality — the quality of being fractal or subdivided
- 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.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- 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.
- fratricide — a person who kills his or her brother.
- fraughting — Present participle of fraught.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freightage — the transportation of goods.
- frenetical — Alternative form of frenetic.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- frictional — of, relating to, or of the nature of friction.
- fritillary — any of several orange-brown nymphalid butterflies, usually marked with black lines and dots and with silvery spots on the undersides of the wings.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- frontality — the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- fruit farm — a farm where fruit is grown
- fruitarian — a person whose diet consists chiefly of fruit.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- fugitation — a sentence given to an accused person who does not appear for trial, declaring them to be an outlaw and fugitive
- fulminated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulminate.
- fulminates — Plural form of fulminate.
- fulminator — One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.