10-letter words containing f, i, c, o
- fictioneer — a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
- fictionist — a writer of fiction; a novelist or short-story writer.
- fictionize — fictionalize.
- fictitious — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field coil — a coil that generates a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it: used in various electrical devices, as motors, generators, or electromagnets.
- 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.
- fiercesome — (nonstandard, dialect) fierce.
- fimicolous — of or relating to an organism that lives on or in animal excrement.
- 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.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- flacourtia — designating a family (Flacourtiaceae, order Violales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees and shrubs
- flint corn — a variety of corn, Zea mays indurata, having very hard-skinned kernels not subject to shrinkage.
- flintlocks — Plural form of flintlock.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- floristics — the study of the distribution, number, types, and relationships of plant species in an area or areas.
- fluidounce — Alternative form of fluid ounce.
- fluocerite — (mineral) A cerium fluoride mineral found in Sweden.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- focalizing — Present participle of focalize.
- foliaceous — of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
- folic acid — a water-soluble vitamin that is converted to a coenzyme essential to purine and thymine biosynthesis: deficiency causes a form of anemia.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- folk music — music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition.
- folklorico — Mexican folk dancing, especially a program or repertoire of such dances.
- follically — Alternative spelling of follicly.
- follicular — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- folliculin — estrone.
- fonticulus — a fontanelle of the cranium
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms
- foodaholic — a person having an excessive, often uncontrollable craving for food.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcefield — Alternative spelling of force field.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- forecaddie — a caddie positioned on the course at a distance from the tee or a given lie, to locate balls after they are hit.
- forinsecal — foreign
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fosfomycin — A broad-spectrum antibiotic, 3-methyloxiran-2-ylphosphonic acid, obtained from certain Streptomyces bacteria.
- fossicking — Present participle of fossick.
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.