10-letter words containing f, i, n
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- forthbring — (obsolete) To bring forth; bring out; produce.
- forthgoing — an instance of going forth
- fortifying — Present participle of fortify.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- fortran ii — 1958. Added subroutines.
- fortran iv — IBM 1962. For the IBM 7090/94. Many implementations went well beyond the original definition.
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- fosfomycin — A broad-spectrum antibiotic, 3-methyloxiran-2-ylphosphonic acid, obtained from certain Streptomyces bacteria.
- fossicking — Present participle of fossick.
- fosterling — foster child.
- foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- foundlings — Plural form of foundling.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- 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.
- fracturing — Present participle of fracture.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- francis ii — Francis I (def 2).
- franciscan — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- franconian — a group of West Germanic dialects or languages, consisting of Frankish and the dialects descended from Frankish.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
- frangipani — a perfume prepared from or imitating the odor of the flower of a tropical American tree or shrub, Plumeria rubra, of the dogbane family.
- franklinia — a shrub or small tree, Franklinia alatamaha, of the tea family, originally native to the SE U.S. and now found only in cultivation, having glossy leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- fraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- fraternize — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraughting — Present participle of fraught.
- fraxinella — gas plant.
- freakiness — freakish.
- freediving — skin diving.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freezingly — (of temperatures) approaching, at, or below the freezing point.
- freight-in — Freight-in is the cost of having goods or materials delivered to a business for manufacture or resale.