10-letter words containing d, o, f
- fatherhood — the state of being a father.
- fazendeiro — an owner of a fazenda
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federation — the act of federating or uniting in a league.
- feedstocks — Plural form of feedstock.
- felo de se — a person who commits suicide or commits an unlawful malicious act resulting in his or her own death.
- felo-de-se — a person who commits suicide or commits an unlawful malicious act resulting in his or her own death.
- 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.
- fight down — If you fight down an emotion or a desire, you try very hard not to feel it, show it, or act on it.
- filopodium — a long, hairlike pseudopod composed of ectoplasm.
- fin-footed — web-footed.
- find favor — to be regarded with favor; be pleasing to
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebombed — Simple past tense and past participle of firebomb.
- first down — the first of four consecutive plays during which an offensive team must advance the ball at least ten yards to retain possession of it.
- first lord — the head of a board commissioned to perform the duties of a high office of state: First Lord of the Admiralty.
- 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.
- flapdragon — an old game in which the players snatch raisins, plums, etc., out of burning brandy, and eat them.
- flashboard — a board, or one of a series of boards, as on a milldam, used to increase the depth of the impounded water.
- flashflood — Alternative spelling of flash flood.
- flatfooted — having flatfeet.
- flavonoids — Plural form of flavonoid.
- float-feed — equipped with a float to control the feed.
- floatboard — paddle1 (def 6).
- flood lamp — a floodlight.
- flood tide — the inflow of the tide; rising tide.
- flood wall — Civil Engineering. a wall built along a shore or bank to prevent floods by giving a raised, uniform freeboard and by allowing unimpeded flow to water in a channel.