10-letter words containing a, t, f, r
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- platterful — a heaped plate or platter
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pratfallen — having fallen upon one's buttocks
- pre-format — 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.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- quantifier — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- queencraft — the art of queenly rule
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- ras tafari — (Ras Tafari) 1891–1975, emperor of Ethiopia 1930–74: in exile 1936–41.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- refit yard — a yard where ships are made ready for use again by repairing, re-equipping, or resupplying
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractive — of or relating to refraction.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refracture — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- refutative — tending to refute; pertaining to refutation: refutative evidence.
- relay fast — (esp in India) a form of protest in which a number of persons go without food by turns
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- retransfer — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- rift-sawed — (of lumber) sawed radially so that the broader sides of the boards or timbers are approximately perpendicular to the annual rings.
- right face — Military. a command, given to a soldier or soldiers at attention, to turn the body about toward the right so as to face in the opposite direction. the act of so turning in a prescribed military manner.
- rijsttafel — an Indonesian meal consisting of rice served with a large array of small dishes of meat, poultry, seafood, vegetables, and condiments.
- rivercraft — a small vessel which is used to travel on rivers
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- root graft — Horticulture. the process of grafting a shoot or stem of one plant onto a section of root of another.
- rotorcraft — a rotary-wing aircraft.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- safari hat — brimmed hat worn on wildlife tours
- safety car — life car.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- satisfiers — to fulfill the desires, expectations, needs, or demands of (a person, the mind, etc.); give full contentment to: The hearty meal satisfied him.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- siegecraft — the science or skill of conducting a siege
- skin graft — skin used for transplanting in skin grafting.