10-letter words containing n, a, o, f
- floatplane — a seaplane having landing gear consisting of one or more floats.
- floatstone — a stone for rubbing bricks to be gauged.
- flocculant — a chemical for producing flocculation of suspended particles, as to improve the plasticity of clay for ceramic purposes.
- floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floor plan — a diagram of one room, apartment, or entire floor of a building, usually drawn to scale.
- floriation — Ornamentation by means of flower forms, either realistic or stylized.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- flotations — Plural form of flotation.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- focalizing — Present participle of focalize.
- fog signal — any of various types of signal used as a warning by vessels navigating in fog or mist.
- foilswoman — a woman who uses or specializes in using a foil
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folsom man — a Paleo-Indian of the Folsom tradition.
- fontanelle — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms
- food grain — any cereal grain produced for human consumption.
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- fool along — to move or proceed in a leisurely way
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- for a song — a short metrical composition intended or adapted for singing, especially one in rhymed stanzas; a lyric; a ballad.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- forearming — Present participle of forearm.
- foredamned — condemned at some earlier time to eternal damnation
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- forehanded — forehand (def 1).
- foreordain — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- foreshanks — Plural form of foreshank.
- forestland — land containing or covered with forests.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- forewarned — to warn in advance.
- forewarner — One who forewarns.
- forfaiting — the financial service of discounting, without recourse, a promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, etc, received from an overseas buyer by an exporter; a form of debt discounting
- forinsecal — foreign
- formalness — being in accordance with the usual requirements, customs, etc.; conventional: to pay one's formal respects.
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- fortran 66 — Fortran IV standardised. ASA X3.9-1966.
- fortran 77 — A popular version of Fortran with Block IF, PARAMETER and SAVE statements added, but still no WHILE. It has fixed-length character strings, format-free I/O, and arrays with lower bounds.