10-letter words containing c, i, e, n, f
- fianchetto — the development of a bishop, in an opening move, by advancing one or two pawns so as to permit movement along the bishop's diagonal.
- fickleness — Changeability, especially as regards one's loyalties or affections.
- fictioneer — a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
- fictionize — fictionalize.
- field corn — feed corn grown for stock.
- fierceness — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- filicinean — of or relating to ferns
- financable — Misspelling of financeable.
- financiere — of or relating to a garnish or sauce prepared typically with truffles, mushrooms, quenelles, olives, Madeira, and sometimes sweetbreads and cockscombs: vol-au-vent financière.
- financiers — Plural form of financier.
- fingerpick — a plectrum.worn on the finger.
- firescreen — a decorative screen placed in the hearth when there is no fire
- fleeciness — The quality of being fleecy.
- fletchings — the feathers on an arrow, which stabilize it during flight.
- flickering — to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- fluidounce — Alternative form of fluid ounce.
- forinsecal — foreign
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- 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.
- french dip — a hot sandwich of roast beef, pork, or lamb, served on a crusty roll over which seasoned pan juices are poured.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- frenetical — Alternative form of frenetic.
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- fricandeau — a loin of veal, larded and braised, or roasted.
- 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.
- functioned — Simple past tense and past participle of function.
- fungicides — Plural form of fungicide.
- funiculate — having a funicle.
- funkadelic — (music) Of, or relating to, funkadelia.
- greenfinch — any finch of the genus Carduelis, of Europe and Asia, having green and yellow plumage, especially C. chloris (European greenfinch)
- hawfinches — Plural form of hawfinch.
- in case of — as a precaution against
- in deficit — If an account or organization is in deficit, more money has been spent than has been received.
- in face of — despite
- inaffected — (obsolete) unaffected.
- inefficacy — lack of power or capacity to produce the desired effect.
- infections — Plural form of infection.
- infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- infelicity — the quality or state of being unhappy; unhappiness.
- inferences — the act or process of inferring.
- inflecting — Present participle of inflect.
- inflection — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- inflective — to modulate (the voice).
- inflictive — Of, pertaining to or causing infliction.