9-letter words containing f, e, t, c
- forecited — previously cited.
- forecloth — a cloth hung over the front of something, esp an altar
- forecourt — Tennis. the part of either half of a tennis court that lies between the net and the line that marks the inbounds limit of a service. Compare backcourt (def 1).
- forestick — the front log in a wood fire, as in a fireplace.
- forestock — (firearms) forearm; handguard.
- foreteach — to teach (something) ahead of time
- forficate — deeply forked, as the tail of a bird.
- formicate — To move like ants.
- fornicate — to commit fornication.
- fort peck — a dam on the Missouri River in NE Montana.
- fortalice — a small fort; an outwork.
- forthcame — Simple past form of forthcome.
- forthcome — To come forth.
- foscarnet — a drug used to treat herpes viruses
- fractable — a coping concealing the slopes of the roof, especially one having an ornamental silhouette.
- fractiles — Plural form of fractile.
- fractured — the breaking of a bone, cartilage, or the like, or the resulting condition. Compare comminuted fracture, complete fracture, compound fracture, greenstick fracture, simple fracture.
- fracturer — a person who, or thing which, fractures (something)
- fractures — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fracture.
- frechette — Louis Honoré [French lwee aw-naw-rey] /French lwi ɔ nɔˈreɪ/ (Show IPA), 1839–1908, Canadian poet and journalist.
- free city — a city having an independent government and forming a sovereign state by itself.
- fricative — (of a speech sound) characterized by audible friction produced by forcing the breath through a constricted or partially obstructed passage in the vocal tract; spirantal; spirant.
- frontenac — Comte de (kɔ̃t də). title of Louis de Buade. 1620–98, governor of New France (1672–82; 1689–98)
- fructuate — to bear fruit
- fruitcake — a rich cake containing dried or candied fruit, nuts, etc.
- fruticose — having the form of a shrub; shrublike.
- furcately — in a furcate manner
- genuflect — to bend the knee or touch one knee to the floor in reverence or worship.
- half cent — a bronze coin of the U.S., equal to one-half cent, issued at various periods between 1793 and 1857.
- homecraft — skills used in the home
- hot fence — an electric fence surrounding a farm
- ice front — the forward section or seaward edge of an ice shelf.
- imperfect — not perfect; lacking completeness: imperfect knowledge.
- in effect — something that is produced by an agency or cause; result; consequence: Exposure to the sun had the effect of toughening his skin.
- inciteful — That incites (rouses, stirs up or excites), or provides incitement.
- infarcted — a localized area of tissue, as in the heart or kidney, that is dying or dead, having been deprived of its blood supply because of an obstruction by embolism or thrombosis.
- infectant — to affect or contaminate (a person, organ, wound, etc.) with disease-producing germs.
- infecting — Present participle of infect.
- infection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.
- infective — infectious.
- infectors — Plural form of infector.
- inflected — to modulate (the voice).
- inflicted — to impose as something that must be borne or suffered: to inflict punishment.
- inflicter — One who inflicts.
- infracted — to break, violate, or infringe (a law, commitment, etc.).
- infuscate — darkened with a fuscous or brownish tinge.
- interface — a surface regarded as the common boundary of two bodies, spaces, or phases.
- laticifer — a tubular structure through which latex circulates in a plant.
- left back — a defending player on the left side of the field
- left-face — a 90° turn to the left, especially as a marching command.