10-letter words containing f, o, r, s
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort lewis — a military reservation in W central Washington State, SW of Tacoma.
- fort meigs — Fort. Fort Meigs.
- fort smith — a city in W Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortissimo — (a direction) very loud.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- 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).
- fortressed — Simple past tense and past participle of fortress.
- fortresses — Plural form of fortress.
- fortuities — Plural form of fortuity.
- fortuitism — the doctrine that evolutionary adaptations are the result of chance
- fortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
- fosterling — foster child.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-flush — to bluff.
- fourierism — the social system proposed by François Marie Charles Fourier, under which society was to be organized into phalanxes or associations, each large enough for all industrial and social requirements.
- fourposter — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- free house — a tavern that, having no affiliation or contract with a particular brewery, serves several brands of beer, ale, etc.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freestones — Plural form of freestone.
- fresherdom — the state of being a fresher
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- frightsome — Frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- frithstool — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a seat in a church, placed near the altar, for persons who claimed the right of sanctuary.
- frog's-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- frogfishes — Plural form of frogfish.
- frogmouths — Plural form of frogmouth.
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- front list — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frontstall — chanfron.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frost stud — an antislip device fitted to a horse's shoe