10-letter words containing f, e, c
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flyspeck 3 — (humour) A standard name for any font that is so tiny as to be unreadable, by analogy with names like "Helvetica 10" for 10-point Helvetica. Legal boilerplate is usually printed in Flyspeck 3.
- flyspecked — Covered with flyspecks.
- focal area — (in dialect geography) an area whose dialect has exerted influence on the dialects of surrounding areas, as reflected in a set of isoglosses more or less concentrically surrounding it.
- foetoscope — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fetoscope.
- foetoscopy — Alternative form of fetoscopy.
- foliaceous — of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- food cycle — food web
- foot score — a line at each end of the rink that is at right angles to its length.
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.
- for effect — If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- force-feed — to compel to take food, especially by means of a tube inserted into the throat: They force-fed the prisoners in the hunger strike.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcefield — Alternative spelling of force field.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forclosure — Alternative form of foreclosure.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- forecaddie — a caddie positioned on the course at a distance from the tee or a given lie, to locate balls after they are hit.
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forecaster — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forecastle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- forechoose — (transitive) To prefer; choose in preference.
- forechosen — pre-selected
- foreclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreclose.
- forecloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreclose.
- forecourse — the lowermost sail on a square-rigged foremast; a square foresail.
- forecourts — Plural form of forecourt.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- forfeuchen — worn out; exhausted
- forinsecal — foreign
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fragrances — Plural form of fragrance.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.