10-letter words containing f, i, r, e, a
- frigidaire — (now historical) A refrigerator.
- frigmarole — a jocular term for foreplay when considered, esp from the man’s point of view, to be a tiresome prelude to the main event
- fringehead — any fish of the genus Neoclinus, characterized by a row of fleshy processes on the head, as N. blanchardi (sarcastic fringehead) of California coastal waters.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- fund-raise — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fundraised — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fundraiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
- funeralize — to hold or officiate at a funeral service for.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form
- gaffrigged — (of a sailboat) having one or more gaff sails.
- gas fitter — a person who installs gas pipes and apparatus in buildings.
- gauffering — an ornamental plaiting used for frills and borders, as on women's caps.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- godfearing — Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
- graffitied — Simple past tense and past participle of graffiti.
- grainfield — a field in which grain is grown.
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- great rift — a group of large dark clouds in the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Sagittarius.
- grey friar — a Franciscan friar
- griffonage — (rare) Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- half-miler — a half-mile race.
- half-price — at a 50% reduction in cost
- half-quire — 12 uniform sheets of paper.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- in fear of — If you are in fear of doing or experiencing something unpleasant or undesirable, you are very worried that you might have to do it or experience it.
- in feather — feathered
- infantries — Plural form of infantry.
- infernally — hellish; fiendish; diabolical: an infernal plot.
- infiltrate — to filter into or through; permeate.
- infirmarer — the infirmarian of a mediaeval monastery
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- infraorder — A taxonomic category that ranks below a suborder.
- infraposed — placed beneath
- infrarenal — Located below the kidney.
- infuriated — to make furious; enrage.
- infuriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infuriate.
- ingrateful — Ungrateful; not grateful.
- interfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interface.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- interfaith — of, operating, or occurring between persons belonging to different religions: an interfaith service.
- interframe — (signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
- intergraft — (of two plants or parts of a plant) to unite by grafting
- intraframe — (signal processing) A video frame which does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents fixed image. Usually subject to spatial compression.
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails