10-letter words containing f, i, r, n
- flittering — Present participle of flitter.
- florentine — of or relating to Florence, Italy: the Florentine poets of the 14th century.
- floriation — Ornamentation by means of flower forms, either realistic or stylized.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- floridness — The quality of being florid.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- flustering — Agitated, confusing.
- fluttering — Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- food grain — any cereal grain produced for human consumption.
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- forearming — Present participle of forearm.
- foreboding — a prediction; portent.
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- forefinger — the first finger next to the thumb.
- foreigners — Plural form of foreigner.
- foreignism — a foreign custom, mannerism, etc.
- foreordain — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- foreseeing — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- forfaiting — the financial service of discounting, without recourse, a promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, etc, received from an overseas buyer by an exporter; a form of debt discounting
- forfeiting — a fine; penalty.
- forfending — Present participle of forfend.
- forgetting — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forinsecal — foreign
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- fort irwin — a military reservation in SW California, NE of Barstow.
- 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.
- fosterling — foster child.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.