10-letter words containing i, r, s, f, a
- first-rate — excellent; superb.
- fissurella — (zoology) Any of the genus Fissurella of marine gastropod mollusks.
- fixed star — any of the stars which apparently always retain the same position in respect to one another.
- flapperish — in the style of a flapper
- flatteries — Plural form of flattery.
- flavivirus — Any of a group of RNA viruses, mostly having arthropod vectors, that cause a number of serious human diseases including yellow fever, dengue, various types of encephalitis, and hepatitis C.
- flavorings — Plural form of flavoring.
- flavourist — a chemist who blends ingredients to create artificial flavours or scents, for food or perfume
- flindersia — a genus of tree native to Australasia, containing fourteen species
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- foreladies — Plural form of forelady.
- forinsecal — foreign
- formalised — Simple past tense and past participle of formalise.
- formalizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formalize.
- 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.
- forsythias — Plural form of forsythia.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- 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).
- framboesia — yaws.
- 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.
- 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.
- francis ii — Francis I (def 2).
- franciscan — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- freakiness — freakish.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- freshmanic — of, relating to, or characteristic of a freshman: freshmanic enthusiasm.
- fricasseed — meat, especially chicken or veal, browned lightly, stewed, and served in a sauce made with its own stock.
- fricassees — Plural form of fricassee.
- fricatives — Plural form of fricative.
- frugalista — (informal) A person (especially a woman) who is fashionable while being thrifty.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- fumigators — Plural form of fumigator.
- fund-raise — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fundraised — to collect by fund-raising: The charity needs to fund-raise more than a million dollars.
- fundraiser — a person who solicits contributions or pledges.
- funiculars — Plural form of funicular.
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form