10-letter words containing k, r
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- 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).
- foreknower — One who foreknows.
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- forestlike — Like a forest.
- forklifted — Simple past tense and past participle of forklift.
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- frankfurts — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- franklinia — a shrub or small tree, Franklinia alatamaha, of the tea family, originally native to the SE U.S. and now found only in cultivation, having glossy leaves and large, solitary white flowers.
- frantickly — Obsolete form of franticly.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakiness — freakish.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- free skate — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- french kid — kidskin tanned by an alum or vegetable process and finished in a manner originally employed by the French.
- friar tuck — the jolly, pugnacious friar who was a member of Robin Hood's band.
- friezelike — Resembling a frieze.
- friskiness — The characteristic or quality of being frisky.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- frock coat — a man's close-fitting, knee-length coat, single-breasted or double-breasted and with a vent in the back.
- frock tart — a person who makes or designs costumes for films or television
- frolicking — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- front desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- front-rank — among the best or most important; foremost; topnotch.
- fruitcakes — Plural form of fruitcake.
- full marks — If you get full marks in a test or exam, you get everything right and gain the maximum number of marks.
- gadzookery — the use or overuse of period-specific or archaic expressions, as in a historical novel: Without any gadzookery and its excessive use of “forsooth,” “prithee,” etc., her first historical novel conveys a superb sense of the period.
- gamekeeper — a person employed, as on an estate or game preserve, to prevent poaching and provide a natural environment conducive to the propagation of game, as by thinning brush, scattering food after a snowstorm, and the like.
- gas cooker — cooking stove that runs on gas
- gas worker — a gas engineer
- gatekeeper — a person in charge of a gate, usually to identify, count, supervise, etc., the traffic or flow through it.
- gill raker — (in fish) one of a series of stiff projections along the inner margins of the branchial arches that prevent food particles from passing through the branchial clefts.
- gimmickery — the use of gimmicks.
- gin rickey — a rickey made with gin.
- glassmaker — A person or company that makes glass or glass items.
- glassworks — a factory where glass is made.
- glovemaker — A maker of gloves; a glover.
- gluemakers — Plural form of gluemaker.
- go berserk — If someone or something goes berserk, they lose control of themselves and become very angry or violent.
- go-karting — racing in small vehicle
- goalkeeper — (in ice hockey, field hockey, lacrosse, soccer, etc.) a player whose chief duty is to prevent the ball or puck from crossing or entering the goal.
- goalkicker — a person who makes a goal kick
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- gold brick — Informal. a brick made to look like gold, sold by a swindler.
- gonkulator — /gon'kyoo-lay-tr/ (From "Hogan's Heroes", the TV series) A pretentious piece of equipment that actually serves no useful purpose. Usually used to describe one's least favourite piece of computer hardware. See gonk.
- gorge hook — a fishhook with two barbed prongs; a hook made by fastening two hooks back to back at the shanks.
- grade book — a book in which a student's grades are recorded