9-letter words containing f, o, r, c, e
- cowfeeder — a tenant of a small dairy farm
- cream off — To cream off part of a group of people means to take them away and treat them in a special way, because they are better than the others.
- crossfire — Crossfire is gunfire, for example in a battle, that comes from two or more different directions and passes through the same area.
- cteniform — resembling a comb
- cuneiform — wedge-shaped
- cupferron — a salt ammonium compound (N-nitrosophenylhydroxylamine) used as a reagent in metal ion complexation
- cupflower — any of various plants belonging to the genus Nierembergia, of the nightshade family, having showy tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- defecator — One who defecates.
- defectors — Plural form of defector.
- deflector — A device that deflects something, in particular.
- defrocked — Simple past tense and past participle of defrock.
- downforce — a force produced by air resistance plus gravity that increases the stability of an aircraft or motor vehicle by pressing it downwards
- ecofreaks — Plural form of ecofreak.
- effectors — Plural form of effector.
- enforcers — Plural form of enforcer.
- enforcing — Present participle of enforce.
- eruciform — Shaped like a caterpillar.
- escoffier — (Georges) Auguste (oɡyst). 1846–1935, French chef at the Savoy Hotel, London (1890–99)
- face cord — a measure of wood cut for fuel, as arranged in a pile 8 feet wide, 4 feet high, and with pieces 12 to 18 inches in length
- factorage — the action or business of a factor.
- factories — A building or group of buildings where goods are manufactured or assembled chiefly by machine.
- factorise — (mathematics): To create a list of factors.
- factorize — Mathematics. to resolve into factors.
- falconers — Plural form of falconer.
- favorance — a liking or preference: My family always had a favorance for farming.
- fencerows — Plural form of fencerow.
- feracious — Producing in abundance; fertile, fruitful.
- fermionic — (physics) Of, pertaining to, or characteristic of fermions.
- ferocious — savagely fierce, as a wild beast, person, action, or aspect; violently cruel: a ferocious beating.
- ferrocene — Also called dicyclopentadienyliron. an orange, crystalline, water-insoluble coordination compound, (C 5 H 5) 2 Fe, having a camphorlike odor: used chiefly as an antiknock agent for gasoline and as a catalyst. Compare metallocene.
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- firelocks — Plural form of firelock.
- fivescore — (archaic) Hundred.
- floricane — a plant stem that grows for a year before bearing fruit and flowers, as in the bramble or raspberry.
- fluoresce — to exhibit fluorescence.
- focometer — an instrument for measuring the focal length of a lens or other optical system.
- footraces — Plural form of footrace.
- force cup — plunger (def 3).
- force fit — assembly of two tightly fitting parts, as a hub on a shaft, made by a press or the like.
- force-out — a put-out of a base runner on a force play.
- forceable — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- forcefull — Archaic form of forceful.
- forceless — Without force.
- forcemeat — a mixture of finely chopped and seasoned foods, usually containing egg white, meat or fish, etc., used as a stuffing or served alone.
- forcement — (obsolete) The act of forcing; compulsion.
- forcipate — having the shape of or resembling a forceps.
- forclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of forclose.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- forecaddy — caddy who goes ahead of the golfer to point out the ball's location
- forecasts — Plural form of forecast.