10-letter words containing f, e, r, t
- except for — You use except for to introduce the only thing or person that prevents a statement from being completely true.
- exfiltrate — Withdraw (troops or spies) surreptitiously, especially from a dangerous position.
- exfoliator — An exfoliant.
- eyes front — a command to troops to look ahead
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabricates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fabricate.
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factorable — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.
- factorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of factorize.
- fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
- fair trade — legal or ethical commerce
- fair-trade — to sell (a commodity) under a fair-trade agreement.
- fairy tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairy-tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairytales — Plural form of fairytale.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- fan heater — a space heater consisting of an electrically heated element with an electrically driven fan to disperse the heat by forced convection
- fan letter — a letter sent by an admiring fan, as to a celebrity.
- fantasizer — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- farce-meat — forcemeat.
- fare stage — a section of a bus journey for which a set charge is made
- farebeater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farfetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- farmerette — a girl or woman working on a farm.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fast break — a play, as in basketball, in which a team quickly moves down the playing area in an attempt to score before an adequate defense can be set up
- fast-break — to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
- fastballer — (baseball) One who pitches fastballs.
- faster lex — (language) (FLEX) A reimplementation of the Lex scanner generator, by Vern Paxson <[email protected]>. FTP flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a GNU archive site or ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex-2.4.3.tar.Z.
- fat-finger — noting or pertaining to errors made by hitting the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, or number pad: fat-finger dialing errors; a large number of typos evidencing the fat-finger syndrome.
- fatbrained — slow-witted, stupid
- fatherhood — the state of being a father.
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fatherless — not having a living father: a fatherless boy.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- fatshedera — an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica: family Araliaceae
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- favoritest — (nonstandard) favorite.
- favourites — Plural form of favourite.
- fearnaught — A fearless person.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- featherbed — A bed that has a mattress stuffed with feathers.
- feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- feathering — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- featurette — (film) A relatively short feature film.