10-letter words containing f, e, r, o, a
- malleiform — having the shape of a hammer
- manifolder — a machine for making manifolds or copies, as of writing.
- marouflage — a method of attaching a canvas to a wall through adhesion, accomplished by coating the surface with white lead mixed with oil.
- montferrat — a historic region in NW Italy, in the Piedmont, S of the Po River.
- nonfederal — pertaining to or of the nature of a union of states under a central government distinct from the individual governments of the separate states, as in federal government; federal system.
- o'flaherty — Liam [lee-uh m] /ˈli əm/ (Show IPA), 1896–1984, Irish novelist.
- oak forest — a town in NE Illinois.
- 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 stream — (of an industrial plant, manufacturing process, etc) shut down or not in production
- 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.
- off-roader — An off-roader is the same as an off-road vehicle.
- 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.
- on welfare — the good fortune, health, happiness, prosperity, etc., of a person, group, or organization; well-being: to look after a child's welfare; the physical or moral welfare of society.
- open frame — a frame in which a bowler fails to make a strike or a spare.
- oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
- other half — the people of an economic class clearly different from one's own or from that to which reference is being made: a glimpse of how the other half lives.
- our father — Lord's Prayer.
- overaffect — To have too great an effect on.
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- overfacile — excessively facile
- overfavour — to favour too much
- page proof — a trial proof printed from type that has been made up in page form, usually after galley corrections have been made, but before plates are made. Compare proof (def 12).
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- perforated — perforated.
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- pianoforte — a piano.
- 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.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- pre-format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- quakeproof — designed or built to withstand the destructive forces of an earthquake.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- ray flower — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- reformable — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven