10-letter words containing f, e, t, u
- despiteful — spiteful; malicious
- disfeature — to mar the features of; disfigure.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- drift tube — a conducting enclosure, usually cylindrical, held at a constant potential so that electrons or charged particles within will experience no force, and therefore no change in velocity. Compare Klystron.
- duckfooted — afflicted with splayfoot.
- dutch wife — (in tropical countries) an open framework used in bed as a rest for the limbs.
- duty-frees — goods sold in a duty-free shop
- effectuate — to bring about; effect.
- effigurate — having a definite shape or form
- engulfment — The act of engulfing.
- eventfully — In a eventful manner; with much activity.
- exsufflate — (obsolete) To exorcise or renounce by blowing.
- face up to — the front part of the head, from the forehead to the chin.
- fagged out — exhausted
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- fault line — the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- fauxtatoes — Mashed cauliflower used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- favourites — Plural form of favourite.
- fearnaught — A fearless person.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- 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.
- featurette — (film) A relatively short feature film.
- fecundated — Simple past tense and past participle of fecundate.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feedstuffs — Plural form of feedstuff.
- feel up to — to perceive or examine by touch.
- felicitous — well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
- fepped out — (jargon) /fept owt/ The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor (FEP). When the main processor gets wedged, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen. Such a machine is said to have "fepped out" or "dropped into the fep".
- ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- fetiparous — (of a marsupial) bearing young before they are fully developed.
- fetterbush — an evergreen shrub, Lyonia lucida, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., having clusters of fragrant, white flowers.
- fettuccine — pasta cut in flat narrow strips.
- fettuccini — pasta cut in flat narrow strips.
- feuilleton — a part of a European newspaper devoted to light literature, fiction, criticism, etc.
- 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.
- 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.
- filter out — ignore
- fire truck — fire engine.
- firetrucks — Plural form of firetruck.
- firmicutes — Plural form of firmicute.
- fitfulness — The quality of being fitful.
- fizzle out — to make a hissing or sputtering sound, especially one that dies out weakly.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flatterous — flattering