10-letter words containing f, e, r, o, a
- fourragere — an ornament of cord worn on the shoulder.
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- fraunhofer — Joseph von [joh-zuh f von,, -suh f;; German yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf vɒn,, -səf;; German ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1787–1826, German optician and physicist.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freeloaded — Simple past tense and past participle of freeload.
- freeloader — to take advantage of others for free food, entertainment, etc.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- 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.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- gale-force — A gale-force wind is a very strong wind.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- godfearing — Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
- griffonage — (rare) Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.
- harden off — to accustom (a cultivated plant) or (of such a plant) to become accustomed to outdoor conditions by repeated exposure
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- in fear of — If you are in fear of doing or experiencing something unpleasant or undesirable, you are very worried that you might have to do it or experience it.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- infraorder — A taxonomic category that ranks below a suborder.
- infraposed — placed beneath
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kefalotiri — Alternative form of kefalotyri.
- kefalotyri — A Greek cheese similar to parmesan.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lageniform — shaped like a flask; having an enlarged base tapering to a narrow neck.
- lake frome — a shallow salt lake in NE South Australia: intermittently filled with water. Length: 100 km (60 miles). Width: 48 km (30 miles)
- lakefronts — Plural form of lakefront.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- laniferous — wool-bearing: sheep and other laniferous animals.
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- 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.
- leafhopper — any of numerous leaping, homopterous insects of the family Cicadellidae that suck plant juices, many being serious crop pests.
- leafroller — Alternative spelling of leaf roller.
- left arrow — (character) The graphic which the 1963 version of ASCII had in place of the underscore character, ASCII 95.
- life arrow — an arrowlike projectile for carrying a line for use in maritime rescue operations.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- look after — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.