10-letter words containing f, r, a, t, e
- fraughtage — (obsolete) freight; cargo.
- free agent — a person who is self-determining and is not responsible for his or her actions to any authority.
- free skate — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- free state — U.S. History. (before the Civil War) a state in which slavery was prohibited.
- free trade — trade between countries, free from governmental restrictions or duties.
- freemartin — a female calf that is born as a twin with a male and is sterile as a result of exposure to masculinizing hormones produced by the male.
- freightage — the transportation of goods.
- frenetical — Alternative form of frenetic.
- freshwater — of or living in water that is fresh or not salt: freshwater fish.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- frustrated — Obsolete. frustrated.
- frustrater — One who or that which frustrates.
- frustrates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of frustrate.
- fulgurated — Simple past tense and past participle of fulgurate.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- gas fitter — a person who installs gas pipes and apparatus in buildings.
- gayfeather — Many of the plant of the genus Liatris, native to North America, including Mexico, east of the continental divide.
- gearshifts — Plural form of gearshift.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- graffitied — Simple past tense and past participle of graffiti.
- grapefruit — a large, roundish, yellow-skinned, edible citrus fruit having a juicy, acid pulp.
- gratefully — warmly or deeply appreciative of kindness or benefits received; thankful: I am grateful to you for your help.
- great rift — a group of large dark clouds in the Milky Way between the constellations Cygnus and Sagittarius.
- half tiger — a five-rand coin
- half-liter — a unit of capacity equal to 500 cubic centimeters.
- hammerfest — a seaport in N Norway: the northernmost town in Europe.
- hardfisted — mean or miserly
- head-first — If you move head-first in a particular direction, your head is the part of your body that is furthest forward as you are moving.
- heart-free — not in love.
- heartfully — In a heartful manner.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- in feather — feathered
- infantries — Plural form of infantry.
- infiltrate — to filter into or through; permeate.
- infuriated — to make furious; enrage.
- infuriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infuriate.
- ingrateful — Ungrateful; not grateful.
- interfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interface.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- interfaith — of, operating, or occurring between persons belonging to different religions: an interfaith service.
- interframe — (signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
- intergraft — (of two plants or parts of a plant) to unite by grafting
- intraframe — (signal processing) A video frame which does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents fixed image. Usually subject to spatial compression.
- kefalotiri — Alternative form of kefalotyri.
- kefalotyri — A Greek cheese similar to parmesan.
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.