10-letter words containing e, n, t, r
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- front line — war: battlefront
- front nine — the first nine holes on an eighteen-hole course.
- front-line — located or designed to be used at a military front line: a front-line ambulance helicopter.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frontwomen — Plural form of frontwoman.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frostiness — The quality of being frosty.
- frothiness — The quality of being frothy.
- fruitiness — resembling fruit; having the taste or smell of fruit.
- frumentius — Saint, a.d. c300–c380, founder of the Ethiopian Church.
- frutescent — tending to be shrublike; shrubby.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- furnitures — the movable articles, as tables, chairs, desks or cabinets, required for use or ornament in a house, office, or the like.
- furthering — at or to a greater distance; farther: I'm too tired to go further.
- gainstrive — to resist; to oppose
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- gangmaster — a person who recruits and manages temporary or migratory labourers, esp for seasonal agricultural work
- gansevoort — Peter, 1749–1812, U.S. general: soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- garmenture — the clothing (of a person)
- garnierite — a mineral, hydrous nickel magnesium silicate, occurring in earthy, green masses: an important ore of nickel.
- garnitures — Plural form of garniture.
- gastronome — a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
- gatherings — Plural form of gathering.
- gear train — a set of automobile gears that transmit power; transmission.
- gee string — G-string.
- gee-string — a loincloth or breechcloth, usually secured by a cord at the waist.
- genderlect — a type or style of speech used by a particular gender.
- generalate — the rank or office of a military general
- generalist — a person whose knowledge, aptitudes, and skills are applied to a field as a whole or to a variety of different fields (opposed to specialist).
- generality — an indefinite, unspecific, or undetailed statement: to speak in generalities about human rights.
- generating — Present participle of generate.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- generative — capable of producing or creating.
- generators — Plural form of generator.
- generatrix — generator (def 4b).
- genericity — Genericness, the state or quality of being generic.
- generosity — readiness or liberality in giving.
- genevrette — a fruity wine flavoured with juniper berries
- gentrified — very or excessively refined or elegant.
- gentrifier — to alter (a deteriorated urban neighborhood) through the buying and renovation of houses and stores by upper- or middle-income families or individuals, raising property values but often displacing low-income families and small businesses.
- geocentric — having or representing the earth as a center: a geocentric theory of the universe.
- georgetown — an island in SE Asia, off the W coast of the Malay Peninsula. 110 sq. mi. (285 sq. km).
- germanates — Plural form of germanate.
- germantown — a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.
- germinated — Simple past tense and past participle of germinate.
- germinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of germinate.