10-letter words containing f, s, t, o
- 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).
- fortressed — Simple past tense and past participle of fortress.
- fortresses — Plural form of fortress.
- 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.
- foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
- fosterling — foster child.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- fourposter — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- freestones — Plural form of freestone.
- 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.
- frog's-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- frogmouths — Plural form of frogmouth.
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- 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.
- frontstall — chanfron.
- frontwards — in a direction toward the front.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frost stud — an antislip device fitted to a horse's shoe
- frost-free — (of a refrigerator or other cooling appliance) not requiring defrosting; remaining free of ice buildup.
- frostbites — Plural form of frostbite.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- frostiness — The quality of being frosty.
- frothiness — The quality of being frothy.
- fructoside — a glycoside that yields fructose upon hydrolysis.
- fruit shop — a shop that sells a variety of edible fruits
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- fumitories — Plural form of fumitory.
- goatfishes — Plural form of goatfish.
- god's gift — If a person thinks they are God's gift to someone or something, they think they are perfect or extremely good.
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- goosefoots — Plural form of goosefoot.
- half story — a usable living space within a sloping roof, usually having dormer windows for lighting.
- hofstadter — Richard, 1916–70, U.S. historian.
- homografts — Plural form of homograft.
- hoofprints — Plural form of hoofprint.
- horsethief — Alternative spelling of horse thief.
- hosts file — (networking) A text file on a networked computer used to associate host names with IP addresses. A hosts file contains lines consisting of whitespace-separated fields giving an IP address followed by list of host names or aliases associated with that address. The name resolution library software can use this file to look up the IP address for a host name. The hosts file is "/etc/hosts" on Unix and "C:\Windows\System32\drivers\etc\hosts" or "lmhosts" on Microsoft Windows, In most cases, hosts files have now been almost entirely replaced by DNS, in which distributed servers provide the same information. A hosts file can still be used to override DNS for testing purposes or other special situations.