10-letter words containing f, r, a, t
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factionary — a member of a faction
- factorable — one of the elements contributing to a particular result or situation: Poverty is only one of the factors in crime.
- factorials — Plural form of factorial.
- factorized — Simple past tense and past participle of factorize.
- factorizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of factorize.
- factorship — The business of a factor.
- fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
- fair catch — a catch of a kicked ball in which the receiver signals that he or she will not advance the ball and therefore may not be interfered with or tackled.
- fair trade — legal or ethical commerce
- fair-trade — to sell (a commodity) under a fair-trade agreement.
- fairy tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairy-tale — a story, usually for children, about elves, hobgoblins, dragons, fairies, or other magical creatures.
- fairytales — Plural form of fairytale.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- faldistory — a bishop's seat or throne
- fall apart — physically: into pieces
- fall front — a part of a desk front, hinged at the lower end and opening out to provide a writing surface.
- fall short — not be satisfactory
- fan heater — a space heater consisting of an electrically heated element with an electrically driven fan to disperse the heat by forced convection
- fan letter — a letter sent by an admiring fan, as to a celebrity.
- fantasizer — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- farce-meat — forcemeat.
- fare stage — a section of a bus journey for which a set charge is made
- farebeater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farfetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- farmerette — a girl or woman working on a farm.
- farmington — a city in NW New Mexico.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- farnsworth — Philo Taylor [fahy-loh] /ˈfaɪ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1906–71, U.S. physicist and inventor: pioneer in the field of television.
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- fascinator — a person or thing that fascinates.
- fast break — a play, as in basketball, in which a team quickly moves down the playing area in an attempt to score before an adequate defense can be set up
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-break — to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- fastballer — (baseball) One who pitches fastballs.
- faster lex — (language) (FLEX) A reimplementation of the Lex scanner generator, by Vern Paxson <[email protected]>. FTP flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a GNU archive site or ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex-2.4.3.tar.Z.
- fat binary — (operating system) An executable file containing code for more than one CPU. The correct code is selected automatically at run time. This is convenient for distributing software and sharing it between multiple platforms.
- fat-finger — noting or pertaining to errors made by hitting the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, or number pad: fat-finger dialing errors; a large number of typos evidencing the fat-finger syndrome.
- fatbrained — slow-witted, stupid
- fatherhood — the state of being a father.
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fatherless — not having a living father: a fatherless boy.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.
- fathership — The state of being a father; fatherhood; paternity.
- fathometer — (nautical) A depth finder that uses sound waves to determine the depth of water.
- fatshedera — an evergreen garden shrub with shiny green leaves and umbels of pale green flowers; a bigeneric hybrid between Fatsia japonica moseri and Hedera hibernica: family Araliaceae