10-letter words containing f, a
- fastnesses — Plural form of fastness.
- fat binary — (operating system) An executable file containing code for more than one CPU. The correct code is selected automatically at run time. This is convenient for distributing software and sharing it between multiple platforms.
- fat chance — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- fat client — (networking) Opposite of "thin client".
- fat-finger — noting or pertaining to errors made by hitting the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, or number pad: fat-finger dialing errors; a large number of typos evidencing the fat-finger syndrome.
- fat-witted — stupid; dull-witted.
- fatalistic — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fatalities — Plural form of fatality.
- fatbrained — slow-witted, stupid
- fatherhood — the state of being a father.
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fatherless — not having a living father: a fatherless boy.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fathomable — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- fathomless — impossible to measure the depth of; bottomless.
- fatigation — (obsolete) Fatigue.
- fatiscence — the state of having cracks or chinks
- fatshedera — an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica: family Araliaceae
- fatty acid — any of a class of aliphatic acids, especially palmitic, stearic, or oleic acid, consisting of a long hydrocarbon chain ending in a carboxyl group that bonds to glycerol to form a fat.
- fault line — the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- fault-find — to seek out minor imperfections or errors; carp
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- fauxhemian — Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
- fauxminist — a person who makes an insincere pretence of feminism
- fauxtatoes — Mashed cauliflower used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- favoristic — Characterized by favoritism.
- favoritest — (nonstandard) favorite.
- favoritism — the favoring of one person or group over others with equal claims; partiality: to show favoritism toward the youngest child.
- favourable — Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- favourites — Plural form of favourite.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- fazendeiro — an owner of a fazenda
- fearlessly — without fear; bold or brave; intrepid.
- fearmonger — a person who creates or spreads alarming news.
- fearnaught — A fearless person.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- fearsomely — In a fearsome manner, or to a fearsome extent.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- featherbed — A bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
- feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feathering — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- featurette — (film) A relatively short feature film.
- febrifugal — of or acting as a febrifuge.
- fecundated — Simple past tense and past participle of fecundate.