10-letter words containing f, e, d, r
- fieldstrip — To disassemble a weapon for cleaning, oiling or repair.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- filter bed — a pond or tank having a false bottom covered with sand and serving to filter river or pond waters.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold
- fire drill — a practice drill for a company of firefighters, the crew of a ship, etc., to train them in their duties in case of fire.
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebombed — Simple past tense and past participle of firebomb.
- firebrands — Plural form of firebrand.
- firedrakes — Plural form of firedrake.
- fireguards — Plural form of fireguard.
- firewalled — Simple past tense and past participle of firewall.
- firewarden — a person having authority in the prevention or extinguishing of fires, as in towns or camps.
- fitzgerald — Edward, 1809–83, English poet: translator of drama and poetry, especially of Omar Khayyám.
- fixed rate — A fixed rate is an interest rate that is set to remain the same for the term of a loan.
- fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
- fixed-gear — Also called fixed-gear bicycle; Informal, fixie. a bicycle having a single-gear system and lacking a freewheel mechanism, so that the wheels only move when the pedals move.
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flatlander — a region that lacks appreciable topographic relief.
- fledermaus — an opera (1874) by Johann Strauss, Jr.
- flindersia — a genus of tree native to Australasia, containing fourteen species
- floodwater — the water that overflows as the result of a flood.
- floordrobe — a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room
- flop-eared — having long, drooping ears, as a hound.
- florideous — belonging to the Florideae family of algae, or having the characteristics thereof
- floridness — The quality of being florid.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- flourished — to be in a vigorous state; thrive: a period in which art flourished.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- flowerhead — (botany) A short, compact cluster of flowers, such as those found in the composites.
- flue-cured — cured or dried by hot air passed through flues
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- fluoridate — to introduce a fluoride into: to fluoridate drinking water.
- fluoridise — fluoridate
- fluoridize — to treat, impregnate, or affect with a fluoride.
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fodderbeet — sugar beet used as fodder.
- foederatus — A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
- food mixer — A food mixer is a piece of electrical equipment that is used to mix food such as cake mixture.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- footbridge — a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
- force down — eat with difficulty