10-letter words containing f, e, r, a, c
- fricandeau — a loin of veal, larded and braised, or roasted.
- fricasseed — meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- fricassees — Plural form of fricassee.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- 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.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- full-cream — denoting or made with whole unskimmed milk
- gale-force — A gale-force wind is a very strong wind.
- gracefully — characterized by elegance or beauty of form, manner, movement, or speech; elegant: a graceful dancer; a graceful reply.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- hard-faced — cheeky
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- interfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interface.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- laticifers — Plural form of laticifer.
- law french — Anglo-French as used in legal proceedings and lawbooks in England from the Norman Conquest to the 17th century, some terms of which are still in use.
- leaf coral — any red algae of the species Bossea orbigniana, common as a seaweed along the Pacific coast of the U.S., having calcified, flattened, jointed stems.
- leaf trace — a strand of fluid-carrying vascular tissue extending from the main stem to the base of a leaf.
- leafcutter — Alternative spelling of leaf-cutter.
- leechcraft — The art of healing.
- left brace — (character) "". {ASCII character 123. Common names: open brace; left brace; left squiggly; left squiggly bracket/brace; left curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: opening brace. Rare: brace ("}" >INTERCAL: embrace ("}" = bracelet). Paired with right brace ("}").
- lifehacker — One who uses lifehacks.
- luciferase — (enzyme) Any one of a group of enzymes that produce bioluminescence by oxidizing luciferin.
- macfarlane — an overcoat with an attached cape and two slits in front near the waist.
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- new france — the French colonies and possessions in North America up to 1763.
- oceanfront — the land along the shore of an ocean.
- off camera — If you do something or if something happens off camera, you do it or it happens when not being filmed.
- off-camera — occurring as part of a film or program but outside the range of the motion-picture or television camera: the off-camera shouts of a mob.
- officerial — 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.
- overaffect — To have too great an effect on.
- overfacile — excessively facile
- patch reef — an isolated coral growth forming a small platform in a lagoon, barrier reef, or atoll.
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- prefascist — relating to fascist leanings before Fascism was founded in 1919
- prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- queencraft — the art of queenly rule
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- reclassify — to classify anew.
- reflex arc — the nerve pathways followed by an impulse during a reflex.
- reflex-act — Physiology. noting or pertaining to an involuntary response to a stimulus, the nerve impulse from a receptor being transmitted inward to a nerve center that in turn transmits it outward to an effector.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refractile — refractive (def 2).
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction