10-letter words containing a, t, f, u
- factitious — not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- factualism — emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment.
- factuality — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faff about — If you say that someone is faffing about or faffing around, you mean that they are doing things in a disorganized way and not achieving very much.
- fagged out — exhausted
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- faithfully — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- fast-count — to short-change.
- fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fault line — the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- fault-find — to seek out minor imperfections or errors; carp
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- fauxminist — a person who makes an insincere pretence of feminism
- fauxtatoes — Mashed cauliflower used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- favourites — Plural form of favourite.
- fearnaught — A fearless person.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featurette — (film) A relatively short feature film.
- fecundated — Simple past tense and past participle of fecundate.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- figurantes — Plural form of figurante.
- figuration — the act of shaping into a particular figure.
- figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- flacourtia — designating a family (Flacourtiaceae, order Violales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees and shrubs
- flagitious — shamefully wicked, as persons, actions, or times.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flash unit — an electronic flash and its power supply in a compact unit.
- flat thunk — (programming) A software mechanism that allows a Win32 application to load and call a 16-bit DLL, or a 16-bit application to load and call a Win32 DLL. See also generic thunk, universal thunk.
- flatterous — flattering
- flatulence — generating gas in the alimentary canal, as food.
- flatulency — (chiefly, dated) flatulence.
- flauntiest — Superlative form of flaunty.
- flavourist — a chemist who blends ingredients to create artificial flavours or scents, for food or perfume
- flocculant — a chemical for producing flocculation of suspended particles, as to improve the plasticity of clay for ceramic purposes.
- flocculate — to form into flocculent masses.
- fluctuated — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluctuates — to change continually; shift back and forth; vary irregularly: The price of gold fluctuated wildly last month.
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.