10-letter words containing f, r, e, c
- fire chief — the officer in charge of a municipality's fire department or departments.
- fire truck — fire engine.
- firebricks — Plural form of firebrick.
- firecrests — Plural form of firecrest.
- fireplaces — Plural form of fireplace.
- firescreen — a decorative screen placed in the hearth when there is no fire
- firetrucks — Plural form of firetruck.
- firmicutes — Plural form of firmicute.
- first-come — arranged, considered, or done in order of application or arrival, as for purposes of service: orders filled on a first-come basis.
- firstcomer — a person who arrives first or among the first.
- flare-back — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flarebacks — Plural form of flareback.
- flatscreen — a type of thin, lightweight video display that uses liquid crystals or electroluminescence to reflect images.
- flickering — to burn unsteadily; shine with a wavering light: The candle flickered in the wind and went out.
- floorcover — material, especially a nonfabric material, as linoleum, vinyl tile, or ceramic tile, used to cover a floor.
- florescent — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- flue-cured — cured or dried by hot air passed through flues
- fluocerite — (mineral) A cerium fluoride mineral found in Sweden.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- fluorescer — something that fluoresces; a fluorescent substance
- fluoresces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoresce.
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- focal area — (in dialect geography) an area whose dialect has exerted influence on the dialects of surrounding areas, as reflected in a set of isoglosses more or less concentrically surrounding it.
- foot score — a line at each end of the rink that is at right angles to its length.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.
- for effect — If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- force-feed — to compel to take food, especially by means of a tube inserted into the throat: They force-fed the prisoners in the hunger strike.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcefield — Alternative spelling of force field.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forclosure — Alternative form of foreclosure.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- forecaddie — a caddie positioned on the course at a distance from the tee or a given lie, to locate balls after they are hit.
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forecaster — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forecastle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- forechoose — (transitive) To prefer; choose in preference.
- forechosen — pre-selected
- foreclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreclose.
- forecloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreclose.