10-letter words containing f, o, i, e
- open-field — any area of the playing field away from the heavily trafficked line of scrimmage, in which the defense is widely scattered.
- oregon fir — Douglas fir.
- oriflammes — Plural form of oriflamme.
- ossiferous — containing bones, especially fossil bones: ossiferous caves and rock beds.
- out-relief — public relief administered to people residing in a poorhouse or similar institution.
- outfielder — one of the players, especially in baseball, stationed in the outfield.
- outfitters — Plural form of outfitter.
- outside of — the outer side, surface, or part; exterior: The outside of the house needs painting.
- overfacile — excessively facile
- overflight — an air flight that passes over a specific area, country, or territory: Overflights of foreign aircraft are closely monitored.
- overfulfil — to fulfil to a greater degree than required
- overinform — to animate or inform excessively
- overoffice — to exercise power over by virtue of one's office
- overrefine — to refine excessively, as with oversubtle distinctions.
- oxysulfide — a sulfide in which part of the sulfur is replaced by oxygen.
- oysterfish — the oyster toadfish. See under toadfish (def 1).
- patient of — capable of bearing (fatigue, thirst, etc.)
- perfection — the state or quality of being or becoming perfect.
- perfidious — deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful: a perfidious lover.
- perfoliate — having the stem apparently passing through the leaf, owing to congenital union of the basal edges of the leaf round the stem.
- performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- phenformin — a biguanide administered orally in the treatment of diabetes to lower blood concentrations of glucose; it has been largely superseded by metformin. Formula: C10H15N5
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pigged off — If you are feeling pigged off, you feel rather angry or unhappy.
- piliferous — having or producing hair.
- pissed off — angry or annoyed.
- polyolefin — any of a group of thermoplastic, stiff, light, and hard polymers obtained from the polymerization of simple olefins like propylene, used for injection molding, mostly in the automotive and appliance industries.
- pomiferous — bearing pomes or pomelike fruits.
- pontifices — plural of pontifex.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- poriferous — bearing or having pores.
- pre-inform — to supply with information beforehand: He preinformed the newspapers of his decision.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- professing — to lay claim to, often insincerely; pretend to: He professed extreme regret.
- profession — a vocation requiring knowledge of some department of learning or science: the profession of teaching. Compare learned profession.
- proffering — to put before a person for acceptance; offer.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- proteiform — changeable in form; multiform
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- quintefoil — cinquefoil (def 2).
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- reef point — one of several short lengths of line stitched through a sail for tying a reef
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.