10-letter words containing f, i, r, e, d
- difluoride — (chemistry) any chloride containing two fluorine atoms in each molecule.
- disfavored — unfavorable regard; displeasure; disesteem; dislike: The prime minister incurred the king's disfavor.
- disfeature — to mar the features of; disfigure.
- disfigured — Simple past tense and past participle of disfigure.
- disfrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of disfrock.
- disprofess — to renounce the profession of
- dogfighter — Person who competes in dogfighting.
- dorsifixed — (botany) Said of anthers that are attached to the filament somewhere along their back.
- draftiness — The characteristic of being drafty.
- drainfield — an open area, the soil of which absorbs the contents of a septic tank.
- drift lead — a lead indicating, by the angle its line makes with the perpendicular, the movement of a supposedly stationary ship or the movement of water past a stationary ship.
- drift mine — a mine the opening of which is dug into an outcrop of coal or ore.
- 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.
- driveshaft — A rotating shaft that transmits torque in an engine.
- edificator — (rare) One who or that which edifies; an edifier.
- esterified — Simple past tense and past participle of esterify.
- etherified — Simple past tense and past participle of etherify.
- fabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.
- fair trade — legal or ethical commerce
- fair-sized — quite big
- fair-trade — to sell (a commodity) under a fair-trade agreement.
- fairminded — Alternative form of fair-minded.
- far afield — a long distance away
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fassbinder — Rainer Werner [rahy-ner] /ˈraɪ nər/ (Show IPA), 1946–82, German film actor and director.
- fatbrained — slow-witted, stupid
- fazendeiro — an owner of a fazenda
- federalism — the federal principle of government.
- federalist — a series of 85 essays (1787–88) by Alexander Hamilton, James Madison, and John Jay, written in support of the Constitution.
- federalize — to bring under the control of a federal government: to federalize the National Guard.
- federating — Present participle of federate.
- federation — the act of federating or uniting in a league.
- federative — pertaining to or of the nature of a federation.
- fernando i — Ferdinand I (def 1).
- ferredoxin — any of a group of red-brown proteins containing iron and sulfur and acting as an electron carrier during photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, or oxidation-reduction reactions.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- fertilised — Simple past tense and past participle of fertilise.
- fertilized — Simple past tense and past participle of fertilize.
- fiberboard — a building material made of wood or other plant fibers compressed and cemented into rigid sheets.
- fibreboard — (British, Canada) A material made from wood chips or shavings, which are compressed and bonded with resin and formed into stiff sheets, often laminated with melamine, and used in building or making furniture.
- field army — army (def 2).
- 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.
- field lark — meadowlark.
- field rank — the rank of major, lieutenant colonel, or colonel
- field term — a university term spent in the field, such as a term spent in another country as part of a foreign language course
- field trip — a trip by students to gain firsthand knowledge away from the classroom, as to a museum, factory, geological area, or environment of certain plants and animals.
- field work — Also, field work. work done in the field, as research, exploration, surveying, or interviewing: archaeological fieldwork.