10-letter words containing f, a, n, t
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- catfishing — Present participle of catfish.
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chieftains — Plural form of chieftain.
- confessant — a person who makes a confession
- confidante — Someone's confidante is a woman who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
- confidants — a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
- confiscate — If you confiscate something from someone, you take it away from them, usually as a punishment.
- conflating — Present participle of conflate.
- conflation — a combining, as of two variant readings of a text into a composite reading
- conformant — In accordance with a set of specifications.
- confrontal — a confrontation
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- defacement — to mar the surface or appearance of; disfigure: to deface a wall by writing on it.
- defamation — Defamation is the damaging of someone's good reputation by saying something bad and untrue about them.
- defaulting — guilty of a failure to act, esp a failure to meet a financial obligation
- defecating — Present participle of defecate.
- defecation — to void excrement from the bowels through the anus; have a bowel movement.
- defendants — Plural form of defendant.
- definately — Misspelling of definitely.
- defination — Misspelling of definition.
- deflations — Plural form of deflation.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- di stéfano — Alfredo (ɑlˈfredo). 1926–2014, Argentinian-born football player, who played for Argentina, Colombia, Spain, and Real Madrid
- disinflate — (of an economy) to slow down the rate of inflation.
- downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
- draftiness — The characteristic of being drafty.
- effacement — to wipe out; do away with; expunge: to efface one's unhappy memories.
- effeminate — (of a man or boy) having traits, tastes, habits, etc., traditionally considered feminine, as softness or delicacy.
- effraction — a breaking into a house, store, etc., by force; forcible entry.
- engrafting — Present participle of engraft.
- exfoliants — Plural form of exfoliant.
- fabulation — to tell invented stories; create fables or stories filled with fantasy.
- face-plant — to fall onto one's face, esp when skiing or snowboarding
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factionary — a member of a faction
- factionist — the leader or representative of a faction
- fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
- fall front — a part of a desk front, hinged at the lower end and opening out to provide a writing surface.