10-letter words containing f, e, c, o
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- snow fence — a barrier erected on the windward side of a road, house, barn, etc., serving as a protection from drifting snow.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- sour-faced — bad-tempered and unfriendly
- stone face — living stones.
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- succes fou — an extraordinarily great success.
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- tenor clef — a sign locating middle C on the next to the top line of the staff.
- the forces — the armed services of a nation
- the office — a hint or signal
- ticked off — a slight, sharp, recurring click, tap, or beat, as of a clock.
- tuffaceous — a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
- uncodified — (of laws or regulations) not codified; not systematized or reduced to a code
- uncoffined — not put into a coffin: an uncoffined corpse.
- unconfined — limited or restricted.
- undercroft — a vault or chamber under the ground, especially in a church.
- unenforced — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- unfactored — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- unforcedly — in an unforced manner
- unforcible — not able to be forced
- unforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- vat office — the part of HM Revenue & Customs that deals with VAT
- viola clef — alto clef.
- vociferant — vociferating; noisy.
- vociferate — say loudly
- vociferous — crying out noisily; clamorous.
- voice-lift — a cosmetic surgical operation on the vocal cords to make the voice sound younger
- volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
- war office — the department of state responsible for the British Army, now part of the Ministry of Defence
- weak force — a force between elementary particles that causes certain processes that take place with low probability, as radioactive beta-decay and collisions between neutrinos and other particles.
- work force — the total number of workers in a specific undertaking: a holiday for the company's work force.
- worm fence — Chiefly Midland U.S. snake fence.