10-letter words containing f, e, t, o
- feretories — Plural form of feretory.
- ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferry port — a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities for the loading and unloading of ferries
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- fess point — the central point of an escutcheon.
- festoonery — a decoration of festoons.
- festooning — Present participle of festoon.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fetologist — a person who studies or practises fetology
- fetoscopes — Plural form of fetoscope.
- feuilleton — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- feverworts — Plural form of feverwort.
- ffestiniog — a town in N Wales, in Gwynedd: tourist attractions include former slate quarries and a narrow-gauge railway at nearby Blaenau Ffestiniog. Pop: 4830 (2001)
- fianchetto — the development of a bishop, in an opening move, by advancing one or two pawns so as to permit movement along the bishop's diagonal.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- fiberoptic — of or relating to instruments utilizing fiber optics.
- fictioneer — a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
- fictionize — fictionalize.
- field stop — the aperture that limits the field of view of a lens or system of lenses.
- fieldboots — knee-length boots
- fieldstone — unfinished stone as found in fields, especially when used for building purposes.
- figure out — a numerical symbol, especially an Arabic numeral.
- filter out — ignore
- fin-footed — web-footed.
- fingerpost — A post at a road junction from which signs project in the direction of the place or route indicated.
- fingerroot — A plant related to ginger, Boesenbergia rotunda, with finger-like roots used as a spice.
- fire point — the lowest temperature at which a volatile liquid, after its vapors have been ignited, will give off vapors at a rate sufficient to sustain combustion.
- fire tower — a tower, as on a mountain, from which a watch for fires is kept.
- firebottle — electron tube
- firestorms — Plural form of firestorm.
- firethorns — Plural form of firethorn.
- first-come — arranged, considered, or done in order of application or arrival, as for purposes of service: orders filled on a first-come basis.
- firstcomer — a person who arrives first or among the first.
- five towns — the, a district in central England famous for the manufacture of pottery and china. The towns comprising this district were combined in 1910 to form Stoke-on-Trent.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- fizzle out — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
- flageolets — Plural form of flageolet.
- flagstoned — Paved with flagstones.
- flagstones — Plural form of flagstone.
- flake tool — a Paleolithic or later stone tool made from a flake struck from a larger core.
- flat broke — having no money
- flat-woven — (of a carpet) woven without pile
- flatfooted — having flatfeet.
- flatterous — flattering
- flex point — a point on a curve at which the curvature changes from convex to concave or vice versa.
- flexatones — Plural form of flexatone.
- flexuosity — the quality or condition of being flexuous.
- flintstone — A piece of flint.
- float-feed — equipped with a float to control the feed.