10-letter words containing f, e, n, c, o
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- forechosen — pre-selected
- forfeuchen — worn out; exhausted
- forinsecal — foreign
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- french pox — (in historical use) syphilis.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- functioned — Simple past tense and past participle of function.
- fundectomy — (surgery) The surgical removal of the fundus of an organ, such as the uterus or the stomach.
- glance off — If an object glances off something, it hits it at an angle and bounces away in another direction.
- henceforth — from now on; from this point forward.
- in case of — as a precaution against
- in face of — despite
- infections — Plural form of infection.
- infectious — communicable by infection, as from one person to another or from one part of the body to another: infectious diseases.
- inflection — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- long-faced — having an unhappy or gloomy expression; glum.
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- moon-faced — having a very round face, regarded as resembling a full moon.
- neofascism — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- no offence — Some people say 'no offence' to make it clear that they do not want to upset you, although what they are saying may seem rather rude.
- nondefence — not relating to defence, esp military defence
- nonfluency — a lack of fluency
- nuciferous — (of a tree or bush) bearing nuts.
- oceanfront — the land along the shore of an ocean.
- of concern — If something is of concern to someone, they find it worrying and unsatisfactory.
- off chance — See at chance (def 17).
- off screen — cinema: not on film
- off-center — not centered; diverging from the exact center.
- off-centre — If something is off-centre, it is not exactly in the middle of a space or surface.
- off-chance — See at chance (def 17).
- off-screen — You use off-screen to refer to the real lives of film or television actors, in contrast with the lives of the characters they play.
- offenceful — giving offence; offensive
- old french — the French language of the 9th through the 13th centuries. Abbreviation: OF.
- omnificent — creating all things; having unlimited powers of creation.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profluence — abundance
- re-enforce — to strengthen with some added piece, support, or material: to reinforce a wall.
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.