10-letter words containing e, f, o
- felicitous — well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
- felixstowe — a port and resort in E England, in Suffolk: ferry connections to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. Pop: 29 349 (2001)
- fellatio's — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
- fellmonger — a preparer of skins or hides of animals, especially sheepskins, prior to leather making.
- fellow men — if you refer to people as your fellow men, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fellowship — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- 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.
- femtometer — fermi. Symbol: fm.
- femtometre — 10-15 of a metre. Symbol: fm.
- fence post — stake or picket of a fence
- feneration — the lending of money on interest.
- fenoprofen — a white crystalline powder, C 30 H 26 CaO 6 , used as an antipyretic, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
- 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".
- feretories — Plural form of feretory.
- 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.
- ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- ferroalloy — an alloy of iron with some element other than carbon, used to introduce the element in the manufacture of steel.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- ferrograms — plural of Ferrogram
- ferroniere — jewel, on a chain, worn on the forehead
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferruginol — (organic compound) A diterpene of the abietane chemical class that has been isolated from the needles of the redwood Sequoia sempervirens.
- ferry port — a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities for the loading and unloading of ferries
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- fess point — the central point of an escutcheon.
- festoonery — a decoration of festoons.
- festooning — Present participle of festoon.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fetologist — a person who studies or practises fetology
- fetoscopes — Plural form of fetoscope.
- feuilleton — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- feverously — feverish.
- feverworts — Plural form of feverwort.
- ffestiniog — a town in N Wales, in Gwynedd: tourist attractions include former slate quarries and a narrow-gauge railway at nearby Blaenau Ffestiniog. Pop: 4830 (2001)
- 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.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- fiberboard — a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- fiberscope — an optical instrument consisting of a fiber bundle with an objective lens at one end and an eyepiece at the other, for viewing objects not accessible to direct viewing.
- 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.
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- fibrillose — Covered with hair-like appendages, as the undersurface of some lichens.
- fibrinogen — a globulin occurring in blood and yielding fibrin in blood coagulation.
- fictioneer — a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
- fictionize — fictionalize.
- 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.