10-letter words containing d, e, f
- fieldmouse — any of various short-tailed mice or voles inhabiting fields and meadows.
- fieldpiece — A mobile artillery piece, i.e. gun or howitzer, for use in the field.
- fieldstone — unfinished stone as found in fields, especially when used for building purposes.
- fieldstrip — To disassemble a weapon for cleaning, oiling or repair.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- fiendishly — In a fiendish manner.
- 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.
- film speed — speed (def 5a).
- filter bed — a pond or tank having a false bottom covered with sand and serving to filter river or pond waters.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- fin-footed — web-footed.
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- finlandize — to subject to Finlandization.
- fire drill — a practice drill for a company of firefighters, the crew of a ship, etc., to train them in their duties in case of fire.
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebombed — Simple past tense and past participle of firebomb.
- 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.
- fishtailed — Simple past tense and past participle of fishtail.
- fissipedal — (zoology) Being or relating to a fissiped.
- 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
- five-speed — (in an automotive vehicle or bicycle) a transmission or system of gears having five forward gear ratios.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- fixed disk — (storage) A hard disk which is not a removable disk.
- 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 link — a permanent transport link, esp a bridge, between two geographical areas separated by water
- fixed menu — a menu which does not change
- fixed rate — A fixed rate is an interest rate that is set to remain the same for the term of a loan.
- fixed sign — any of the four astrological signs, Taurus, Leo, Scorpio, or Aquarius, that are grouped together because of their placement midway between solstices and equinoxes and characterized by identification of those born under the sign with the shared attribute of motivation through subjective values toward a well-defined goal.
- 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.
- fixed-wing — of or relating to aircraft that derive lift from the motion of air over aerodynamically designed surfaces that are rigidly and permanently attached to the fuselage.
- 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.
- flatfooted — having flatfeet.
- flatlander — a region that lacks appreciable topographic relief.
- fledermaus — an opera (1874) by Johann Strauss, Jr.
- fledgeling — a young bird just fledged.