10-letter words containing e, n, l, o
- fluorenone — (organic compound) An aromatic compound with the chemical formula C13H8O, produced from fluorene via oxidation and used in the manufacture of antimalaria drugs.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- fluoxetine — A synthetic compound that inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression.
- foisonless — without strength; weak
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folkestone — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England, on the Strait of Dover.
- folksiness — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- fontanelle — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- fontenelle — Bernard le Bovier de (bɛrnar lə bɔvje də). 1657–1757, French philosopher. His writings include Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes (1688) and Éléments de la géométrie de l'infini (1727)
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- forestland — land containing or covered with forests.
- forinsecal — foreign
- forlornest — Superlative form of forlorn.
- formalness — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- fosterling — foster child.
- free-blown — (of glass) blown and shaped manually and without the use of a mold. Compare blown-molded, offhand (def 5).
- front line — war: battlefront
- front-line — located or designed to be used at a military front line: a front-line ambulance helicopter.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- funnelform — shaped like a funnel, as the corolla of the morning-glory; infundibuliform.
- fusionless — without fusion
- gadolinite — a silicate mineral from which the rare-earth metals gadolinium, holmium, and rhenium are extracted.
- gallstones — Plural form of gallstone.
- gelatinoid — resembling gelatin; gelatinous.
- gelatinous — having the nature of or resembling jelly, especially in consistency; jellylike.
- genecology — the study of the gene frequency of a species in relation to its population distribution within a particular environment
- generously — liberal in giving or sharing; unselfish: a generous patron of the arts; a generous gift.
- gentlefolk — persons of good family and breeding.
- gentlehood — a position attached to gentle birth
- geoponical — agricultural
- girandoles — Plural form of girandole.
- glance off — If an object glances off something, it hits it at an angle and bounces away in another direction.
- glanderous — Characteristic of, pertaining to, or afflicted by glanders.
- glandulose — Alternative form of glandulous.
- glauconite — a greenish micaceous mineral consisting essentially of a hydrous silicate of potassium, aluminum, and iron and occurring in greensand, clays, etc.
- gleization — the natural process of producing gley.
- glendoveer — a heavenly sprite
- glenrothes — a new town in E central Scotland, the administrative centre of Fife: founded in 1948. Pop: 38 679 (2001)
- gloominess — dark or dim; deeply shaded: gloomy skies.
- glossiness — having a shiny or lustrous surface.
- glottidean — Of or relating to the glottis; glottal.
- glucogenic — the production of glucose by the decomposition of glycogen or from any nonglucose precursor.
- gluttonise — Alternative form of gluttonize.
- gluttonize — to eat like a glutton.
- glycogenic — of or relating to glycogen.
- glyoxaline — imidazole.