10-letter words containing f, o, r
- fort smith — a city in W Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- fort worth — a city in N Texas.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- 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
- forthright — going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken: It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense.
- fortifying — Present participle of fortify.
- fortissimo — (a direction) very loud.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- fortran 66 — Fortran IV standardised. ASA X3.9-1966.
- fortran 77 — A popular version of Fortran with Block IF, PARAMETER and SAVE statements added, but still no WHILE. It has fixed-length character strings, format-free I/O, and arrays with lower bounds.
- fortran 90 — (Previously "Fortran 8x" and "Fortran Extended") An extensive enlargement of Fortran 77. Fortran 90 has derived types, assumed shape arrays, array sections, functions returning arrays, case statement, module subprograms and internal subprograms, optional and keyword subprogram arguments, recursion, and dynamic allocation. It is defined in ISO 1539:1991, soon to be adopted by ANSI.
- 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).
- 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.
- forty-five — a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
- forty-four — a cardinal number, 40 plus 4.
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- forward of — If one thing is forward of another, especially on a ship or aircraft, the first thing is in front of the second thing or further ahead.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- 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.
- foudroyant — striking as with lightning; sudden and overwhelming in effect; stunning; dazzling.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-a-cat — four old cat.
- four-color — noting or pertaining to a process for reproducing colored illustrations in a close approximation to their original hues by photographing the artwork successively through magenta, cyan, and yellow color-absorbing filters to produce four plates that are printed successively with yellow, red, blue, and black inks.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- four-flush — to bluff.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- fourbagger — home run.
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fourfooted — Having four feet.
- 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.
- fourragere — an ornament of cord worn on the shoulder.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.