10-letter words containing d, a, f
- fiberboard — a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
- fibreboard — (British, Canada) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, often laminated with melamine, and used in building or making furniture.
- fiddleback — something shaped like a fiddle.
- fiddlehead — Nautical. a billethead having a form similar to the volute carved at the upper end of a violin.
- fiducially — accepted as a fixed basis of reference or comparison: a fiducial point; a fiducial temperature.
- field army — army (def 2).
- field goal — Football. a three-point goal made by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball between the opponent's goalposts above the crossbar.
- field hand — a person who works in the fields of a farm or plantation.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- fieldcraft — (military) The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
- fieldfares — Plural form of fieldfare.
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- filamented — Of or relating to a filament; having filaments; filamentous.
- film badge — a badgelike device that, when processed, indicates whether a dose of radiation has been received: worn by workers subject to radiation exposure.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- find fault — a defect or imperfection; flaw; failing: a fault in the brakes; a fault in one's character.
- find favor — to be regarded with favor; be pleasing to
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- finlandize — to subject to Finlandization.
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebrands — Plural form of firebrand.
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- fireguards — Plural form of fireguard.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- firewarden — a person having authority in the prevention or extinguishing of fires, as in towns or camps.
- first dark — twilight.
- first hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- first lady — (often initial capital letters) the wife of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
- first-hand — from the first or original source: We heard the news of the accident firsthand from a witness.
- fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
- fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
- fittipaldi — Emerson. born 1946, Brazilian motor-racing driver: Formula One world champion (1972,1974)
- fitzgerald — Edward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
- five-a-day — the five portions of fruit and vegetables that people are recommended to eat every day as part of a healthy diet
- fixed head — a recording head in a tape recorder or disk drive that cannot be moved relative to the center of the disk, offering reduced access time.
- fixed idea — a persistent or obsessing idea, often delusional, that can, in extreme form, be a symptom of psychosis.
- fixed rate — A fixed rate is an interest rate that is set to remain the same for the term of a loan.
- fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
- fixed-gear — Also called fixed-gear bicycle; Informal, fixie. a bicycle having a single-gear system and lacking a freewheel mechanism, so that the wheels only move when the pedals move.
- flaccidity — soft and limp; not firm; flabby: flaccid biceps.
- flagstoned — Paved with flagstones.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flanconade — in fencing, a thrust in the side
- flannelled — Wearing clothes made of flannel; especially wearing cricket whites.
- flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flash card — a card having words, numerals, or pictures on it, designed for gaining a rapid response from pupils when held up briefly by a teacher, used especially in reading, arithmetic, or vocabulary drills.
- flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
- flashcards — Plural form of flashcard.