10-letter words containing f, u
- facinorous — extremely wicked
- factiously — given to faction; dissentious: A factious group was trying to undermine the government.
- factitious — not spontaneous or natural; artificial; contrived: factitious laughter; factitious enthusiasm.
- factualism — emphasis on, devotion to, or extensive reliance upon facts: the factualism of scientific experiment.
- factuality — of or relating to facts; concerning facts: factual accuracy.
- faff about — If you say that someone is faffing about or faffing around, you mean that they are doing things in a disorganized way and not achieving very much.
- fagged out — exhausted
- fairground — Often, fairgrounds. a place where fairs, horse races, etc., are held; in the U.S. usually an area set aside by a city, county, or state for an annual fair and often containing exhibition buildings.
- faith cure — a method of attempting to cure disease by prayer and religious faith.
- faithfully — strict or thorough in the performance of duty: a faithful worker.
- falciparum — The parasitic protozoan Plasmodium falciparum that causes falciparum malaria.
- fall about — If you say that people are falling about, you mean that they are laughing a lot about something.
- fall under — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallacious — containing a fallacy; logically unsound: fallacious arguments.
- falun gong — a Chinese system of meditation, martial-arts exercises, and spiritual teachings.
- famousness — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fancifully — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- farborough — an under constable of a township
- farmhouses — Plural form of farmhouse.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- fascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- fasciculus — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fast-count — to short-change.
- fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fault line — the intersection of a fault with the surface of the earth or other plane of reference.
- fault trap — A fault trap is a hydrocarbon trap in which closure is caused by a geological fault.
- fault tree — a diagram providing a model of the interactions between the components of a system when a failure occurs
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- fault-find — to seek out minor imperfections or errors; carp
- faultiness — having faults or defects; imperfect.
- fauxhemian — Someone who adopts some aspects of a Bohemian lifestyle while staying within social conventions.
- fauxminist — a person who makes an insincere pretence of feminism
- fauxtatoes — Mashed cauliflower used as an alternative to potatoes by followers of a low-carbohydrate diet.
- favourable — Pleasing, encouraging or approving.
- favourably — (British, Canada) In a favourable manner.
- favourites — Plural form of favourite.
- favourless — without favour, unfortunate
- fearnaught — A fearless person.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- feateously — in a featous manner
- feathercut — a woman's hair style in which the hair is cut in short and uneven lengths and formed into small curls with featherlike tips.
- featurette — (film) A relatively short feature film.
- febrifugal — of or acting as a febrifuge.
- febrifuges — Plural form of febrifuge.
- fecundated — Simple past tense and past participle of fecundate.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- feedstuffs — Plural form of feedstuff.
- feel up to — to perceive or examine by touch.
- felicitous — well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
- fepped out — (jargon) /fept owt/ The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor (FEP). When the main processor gets wedged, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen. Such a machine is said to have "fepped out" or "dropped into the fep".