10-letter words containing f, a, r, k
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flat broke — having no money
- floodmarks — Plural form of floodmark.
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- frankfurts — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- franklinia — a shrub or small tree, Franklinia alatamaha, of the tea family, originally native to the SE U.S. and now found only in cultivation, having glossy leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakiness — freakish.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- free skate — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- front-rank — among the best or most important; foremost; topnotch.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- half-drunk — being in a temporary state in which one's physical and mental faculties are impaired by an excess of alcoholic drink; intoxicated: The wine made him drunk.
- half-track — a caterpillar tread that runs over and under the rear or driving wheels of a vehicle but is not connected with the forward wheels: used especially on military vehicles.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jef raskin — (person) The person who started the Macintosh project at Apple Computer, Inc. but left the company before the product was launched.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kaffrarian — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kafiristan — former name of Nuristan.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- kefalotiri — Alternative form of kefalotyri.
- kefalotyri — A Greek cheese similar to parmesan.
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- koobi fora — an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominid fossils and some of the oldest hominid areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from one to two million years ago.
- lake frome — a shallow salt lake in NE South Australia: intermittently filled with water. Length: 100 km (60 miles). Width: 48 km (30 miles)
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- lifehacker — One who uses lifehacks.
- look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- make after — to set off in pursuit of; chase
- nootka fir — (in the Pacific Northwest) Douglas fir.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- rock falls — a city in NW Illinois.
- rock-faced — (of a person) having a stiff, expressionless face.
- rolf kraki — a possibly historical Danish king of the 9th century, the subject of an Old Icelandic saga and in accounts by the Danish historian Saxo Grammaticus: involved in great battles with his stepfather, Adils of Sweden.
- salad fork — a small, broad fork, usually one of a set, for eating salad or dessert.
- scarf-skin — the outermost layer of the skin; epidermis.