10-letter words containing f, e, r
- fibreboard — (British, Canada) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, often laminated with melamine, and used in building or making furniture.
- fibreglass — Silica based glass extruded into fibers that possess a length at least 1000 times greater than their width.
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- fibrillate — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fibrillose — Covered with hair-like appendages, as the undersurface of some lichens.
- fibrinlike — Resembling or characteristic of fibrin.
- fibrinogen — a globulin occurring in blood and yielding fibrin in blood coagulation.
- fictioneer — a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
- field army — army (def 2).
- field corn — feed corn grown for stock.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- field term — a university term spent in the field, such as a term spent in another country as part of a foreign language course
- field trip — a trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment of certain plants and animals.
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.
- fieldcraft — (military) The basic military skills required to operate in the field, such as stealth, camouflage, and observation.
- fieldfares — Plural form of fieldfare.
- fieldstrip — To disassemble a weapon for cleaning, oiling or repair.
- fieldworks — Plural form of fieldwork.
- fierceness — menacingly wild, savage, or hostile: fierce animals; a fierce look.
- fiercesome — (nonstandard, dialect) fierce.
- figurantes — Plural form of figurante.
- figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- figure out — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- figurehead — a person who is head of a group, company, etc., in title but actually has no real authority or responsibility: Most modern kings and queens are figureheads.
- figurework — work with figures or numbers
- file clerk — an office employee whose principal work is to file and retrieve papers, records, etc.
- filibuster — U.S. Politics. the use of irregular or obstructive tactics by a member of a legislative assembly to prevent the adoption of a measure generally favored or to force a decision against the will of the majority. an exceptionally long speech, as one lasting for a day or days, or a series of such speeches to accomplish this purpose. a member of a legislature who makes such a speech.
- filler cap — a device sealing the filling pipe to the petrol tank in a motor vehicle
- film-maker — Also called moviemaker. a producer or director of motion pictures, especially one working in all phases of production: the leading young filmmakers of France.
- filmmakers — Plural form of filmmaker.
- filmy fern — any fern of the family Hymenophyllaceae, growing in humid regions and having thin translucent leaves
- filter bed — a pond or tank having a false bottom covered with sand and serving to filter river or pond waters.
- filter out — ignore
- filter tip — a mouthpiece for a cigarette or cigar having a means of filtering the smoke.
- filterable — capable of being filtered.
- fimbriated — Having a fringe or border of hairlike or fingerlike projections.
- financiere — of or relating to a garnish or sauce prepared typically with truffles, mushrooms, quenelles, olives, Madeira, and sometimes sweetbreads and cockscombs: vol-au-vent financière.
- financiers — Plural form of financier.
- fine grain — granularity
- fine print — printed matter in small-sized type.
- fine-drawn — drawn out to extreme fineness or thinness.
- fine-grain — (of an image) having an inconspicuous or invisible grain.
- finger man — a person who points out someone to be murdered, robbed, etc.
- finger-dry — to dry hair by lifting it and running it between the fingers from roots to ends
- fingerbang — (vulgar) To insert one or more digits into another person's vagina or anus for sexual pleasure.
- fingerbone — A bone in the finger.
- fingerbowl — a small bowl filled with water for rinsing the fingers at the table after a meal
- fingerhold — something onto which the fingers can hold