10-letter words containing f, r, i, t, s
- floorshift — a gearshift set into the floor of an automotive vehicle.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- floristics — the study of the distribution, number, types, and relationships of plant species in an area or areas.
- flush girt — a girt running parallel to joists and at the same level.
- flustering — Agitated, confusing.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- folklorist — the traditional beliefs, legends, customs, etc., of a people; lore of a people.
- footprints — Plural form of footprint.
- forestlike — Like a forest.
- forfeiters — Plural form of forfeiter.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatives — Plural form of formative.
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- forsterite — the magnesium end member, Mg 2 SiO 4 , of the olivine group.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort lewis — a military reservation in W central Washington State, SW of Tacoma.
- fort meigs — Fort. Fort Meigs.
- fort smith — a city in W Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fortissimo — (a direction) very loud.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- 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).
- 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.
- fosterling — foster child.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- freighters — Plural form of freighter.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- frightless — (obsolete) Free from fright; fearless.
- frightsome — Frightening; frightful; fearful; causing fear.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- frithstool — (in Anglo-Saxon England) a seat in a church, placed near the altar, for persons who claimed the right of sanctuary.
- frizzliest — Superlative form of frizzly.
- frog's-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- front list — a publisher's sales list of newly or recently published books, especially those of popular or ephemeral appeal.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frostbites — Plural form of frostbite.
- frostiness — The quality of being frosty.
- frothiness — The quality of being frothy.
- fructifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fructify.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.