10-letter words containing h, f
- 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).
- forechoose — (transitive) To prefer; choose in preference.
- forechosen — pre-selected
- forefather — an ancestor.
- foregather — forgather.
- forehanded — forehand (def 1).
- forehearth — (in a blast furnace or cupola) a reservoir for iron or slag, accessible through a door at hearth level.
- forehooves — Plural form of forehoof.
- foremother — a female ancestor.
- foreshadow — to show or indicate beforehand; prefigure: Political upheavals foreshadowed war.
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- foresheets — Plural form of foresheet.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- foreshores — Plural form of foreshore.
- foreshowed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreshow.
- foreshower — One who predicts.
- forfeuchen — worn out; exhausted
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fort henry — Joseph, 1797–1878, U.S. physicist.
- fort smith — a city in W Arkansas, on the Arkansas River.
- fort worth — a city in N Texas.
- forthbring — (obsolete) To bring forth; bring out; produce.
- forthgoing — an instance of going forth
- forthright — going straight to the point; frank; direct; outspoken: It's sometimes difficult to be forthright and not give offense.
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-flush — to bluff.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- fourteenth — next after the thirteenth; being the ordinal number for 14.
- foxborough — a town in E Massachusetts.
- 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.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- fraughtage — (obsolete) freight; cargo.
- fraughting — Present participle of fraught.
- fraunhofer — Joseph von [joh-zuh f von,, -suh f;; German yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf vɒn,, -səf;; German ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1787–1826, German optician and physicist.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- free beach — a beach that permits nude bathing.
- free fight — a fight without rules in which everyone may join
- free house — a tavern that, having no affiliation or contract with a particular brewery, serves several brands of beer, ale, etc.
- free lunch — food provided without charge in some bars and saloons to attract customers.
- free reach — a course sailed by a sailing vessel having the wind on the quarter.