10-letter words containing a, t, r, o
- foregather — forgather.
- forehearth — (in a blast furnace or cupola) a reservoir for iron or slag, accessible through a door at hearth level.
- forestalls — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forestall.
- forestland — land containing or covered with forests.
- foretastes — A sample or suggestion of something that lies ahead.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- 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.
- formatters — Plural form of formatter.
- 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.
- formulated — Simple past tense and past participle of formulate.
- formulates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formulate.
- formulator — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- forstalled — Simple past tense and past participle of forstall.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort bragg — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in S central North Carolina NW of Fayetteville.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- 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 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).
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- four-a-cat — four old cat.
- 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.
- frictional — of, relating to, or of the nature of friction.
- 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.
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- front-load — Also, front-loaded. front-loading (def 1).
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- front-rank — among the best or most important; foremost; topnotch.
- frontality — the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art.
- frontstall — chanfron.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- frontwoman — The lead female singer in a band.
- fulminator — One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
- fumatorium — an airtight structure in which plants are fumigated to destroy fungi or insects.