10-letter words containing f, o, e, t, a
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- sex factor — a sex-determining chromosome or gene.
- snake foot — an elongated foot or short leg, as to a pedestal table, having the form of an ogee tangent to the floor surface.
- soft paste — any of a variety of artificial porcelains, usually incorporating glass or glass ingredients.
- soft scale — any of numerous homopterous insect pests of the family Coccidae, as leafhoppers, aphids, and whiteflies, that are destructive to crops, shade and fruit trees, and various houseplants.
- soft wheat — a wheat characterized by soft, starchy kernels that yield a flour used in making pastry, breakfast cereals, etc.
- soft-pedal — to use the soft pedal.
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- softheaded — stupid or foolish
- spade foot — a square foot, tapering toward its bottom.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- starflower — any of several plants having starlike flowers, as the star-of-Bethlehem or a plant belonging to the genus Trientalis of the primrose family.
- stefansson — Vilhjalmur [vil-hyoul-mer] /ˈvɪlˌhyaʊl mər/ (Show IPA), 1879–1962, U.S. arctic explorer and author, born in Canada.
- stone deaf — totally deaf.
- stone face — living stones.
- stone-deaf — totally deaf.
- stop-frame — Also called stop frame. the process of filming puppets and other objects one frame at a time while incrementally moving or modifying them, giving the illusion of lifelike motion when the captured film frames are viewed in rapid sequence (often used attributively): stop-motion animation; a stop-motion film.
- streamflow — the water that flows in a specific stream site, especially its volume and rate of flow.
- tammerfors — Swedish name of Tampere.
- tanglefoot — a potent alcoholic drink
- task force — Navy, Military. a temporary grouping of units under one commander, formed for the purpose of carrying out a specific operation or mission.
- technofear — fear of using technological devices, such as computers; technophobia
- tolnaftate — an antifungal substance, C 19 H 17 NOS, used topically in the treatment of certain superficial fungal skin infections, as athlete's foot.
- tortfeasor — a person who commits a tort.
- transferor — a person who makes a transfer, as of property.
- trifoliate — having three leaflets, lobes, or foils; trefoil.
- tuffaceous — a fragmental rock consisting of the smaller kinds of volcanic detritus, as ash or cinder, usually more or less stratified.
- unfactored — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- unfathomed — a unit of length equal to six feet (1.8 meters): used chiefly in nautical measurements. Abbreviation: fath.
- unfavorite — a person or thing regarded with special favor or preference: That song is an old favorite of mine.
- unfoliated — shaped like a leaf or leaves: foliated ornaments.
- unforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- unifoliate — having only one leaf.
- vat office — the part of HM Revenue & Customs that deals with VAT
- vociferant — vociferating; noisy.
- vociferate — say loudly
- volte-face — a turnabout, especially a reversal of opinion or policy.
- waterflood — (in the petroleum industry) a method of secondary recovery whereby water is pumped into reservoir rock to force out oil that has ceased to flow under its own pressure.
- waterfront — land on the edge of a body of water.
- waterproof — impervious to water.
- wave front — a surface, real or imaginary, that is the locus of all adjacent points at which the phase of oscillation is the same.
- wavefronts — Plural form of wavefront.
- west fargo — a city in SE North Dakota: suburb of Fargo.
- wolframate — tungstate.
- wolframite — a mineral, iron manganese tungstate, (Fe,Mn)WO 4 , occurring in heavy grayish-black to brownish-black tabular or bladed crystals: an important ore of tungsten.