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10-letter words containing f, o, t, n

  • fluoxetine — A synthetic compound that inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression.
  • fluxionist — a person who uses mathematical fluxions
  • fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
  • flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
  • folkestone — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England, on the Strait of Dover.
  • fontanelle — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
  • fontenelle — Bernard le Bovier de (bɛrnar lə bɔvje də). 1657–1757, French philosopher. His writings include Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes (1688) and Éléments de la géométrie de l'infini (1727)
  • fonticulus — a fontanelle of the cranium
  • fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
  • foot-pound — a foot-pound-second unit of work or energy, equal to the work done by a force of one pound when its point of application moves through a distance of one foot in the direction of the force. Abbreviation: ft-lb.
  • footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
  • footnoting — Present participle of footnote.
  • footprints — Plural form of footprint.
  • footstones — Plural form of footstone.
  • foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
  • forbearant — Forbearing.
  • foredating — Present participle of foredate.
  • forestland — land containing or covered with forests.
  • foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
  • foretopmen — Plural form of foretopman.
  • forfaiting — the financial service of discounting, without recourse, a promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, etc, received from an overseas buyer by an exporter; a form of debt discounting
  • forfeiting — a fine; penalty.
  • forgetness — Oblivion; forgetfulness; obliviousness.
  • forgetting — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • forlornest — Superlative form of forlorn.
  • formations — Plural form of formation.
  • formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
  • fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
  • fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
  • fornicator — to commit fornication.
  • fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
  • fort irwin — a military reservation in SW California, NE of Barstow.
  • fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
  • fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
  • 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
  • fortifying — Present participle of fortify.
  • 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).
  • forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
  • fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
  • foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • fosterling — foster child.
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