10-letter words containing f, e, r, o, t
- off-kilter — not exactly straight or balanced; askew; uneven: off-kilter paintings on every wall.
- off-street — not in the road
- oil filter — a filter that removes impurities from engine oil
- 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.
- out-relief — public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution.
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outfitters — Plural form of outfitter.
- outperform — to surpass in excellence of performance; do better than: a new engine that outperforms the competition; a stock that outperformed all others.
- overaffect — To have too great an effect on.
- overdrafts — Plural form of overdraft.
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- 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.
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- postfreeze — taking place after a freeze
- 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.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- profulgent — radiant
- proteiform — changeable in form; multiform
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- 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.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reef point — one of several short lengths of line stitched through a sail for tying a reef
- 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.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- 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.
- richthofen — Baron Manfred von [mahn-freyt fuh n] /ˈmɑn freɪt fən/ (Show IPA), ("Red Baron"or"Red Knight") 1892–1918, German aviator.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- riverfront — the land or property along a river; the section of a city or town along a river.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- root field — a field containing a given field in which every polynomial can be written as the product of linear factors.
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.