10-letter words containing d, e, f, o
- fepped out — (jargon) /fept owt/ The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor (FEP). When the main processor gets wedged, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen. Such a machine is said to have "fepped out" or "dropped into the fep".
- fernando i — Ferdinand I (def 1).
- ferredoxin — any of a group of red-brown proteins containing iron and sulfur and acting as an electron carrier during photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, or oxidation-reduction reactions.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- 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.
- fiddle bow — a bow with which the strings of the violin or a similar instrument are set in vibration.
- fiddlewood — the heavy, hard, durable wood of various West Indian and other trees.
- field coil — a coil that generates a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it: used in various electrical devices, as motors, generators, or electromagnets.
- field corn — feed corn grown for stock.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- 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 stop — the aperture that limits the field of view of a lens or system of lenses.
- field vole — a small rodent, Microtus agrestis, also known as the short-tailed vole
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fieldboots — knee-length boots
- fieldmouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- fieldstone — unfinished stone as found in fields, especially when used for building purposes.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- fin-footed — web-footed.
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebombed — Simple past tense and past participle of firebomb.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- flagstoned — Paved with flagstones.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flanconade — in fencing, a thrust in the side
- flapdoodle — nonsense; bosh.
- flatfooted — having flatfeet.
- float-feed — equipped with a float to control the feed.
- flood tide — the inflow of the tide; rising tide.
- floodgates — Plural form of floodgate.
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- floordrobe — a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- floridness — The quality of being florid.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- fluidounce — Alternative form of fluid ounce.
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- fluoridise — fluoridate
- fluoridize — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.