10-letter words containing f, a, r, i
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forearming — Present participle of forearm.
- forecaddie — a caddie positioned on the course at a distance from the tee or a given lie, to locate balls after they are hit.
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- foreladies — Plural form of forelady.
- foreordain — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- forfaiting — the financial service of discounting, without recourse, a promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, etc, received from an overseas buyer by an exporter; a form of debt discounting
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- forinsecal — foreign
- formalised — Simple past tense and past participle of formalise.
- formaliter — formally
- formalized — Simple past tense and past participle of formalize.
- formalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formalize.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- fortran ii — 1958. Added subroutines.
- fortran iv — IBM 1962. For the IBM 7090/94. Many implementations went well beyond the original definition.
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- fractality — the quality of being fractal or subdivided
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fracturing — Present participle of fracture.
- fraidy-cat — a timid, easily frightened person: often used by children.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- francis ii — Francis I (def 2).
- franciscan — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- franconian — a group of West Germanic dialects or languages, consisting of Frankish and the dialects descended from Frankish.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.