10-letter words containing n, a, o, t
- fatigation — (obsolete) Fatigue.
- fault zone — a network of interconnected fractures representing the surficial expression of a fault.
- fearnought — a stout woolen cloth for overcoats.
- fecundator — to make prolific or fruitful.
- federation — the act of federating or uniting in a league.
- feneration — the lending of money on interest.
- fianchetto — the development of a bishop, in an opening move, by advancing one or two pawns so as to permit movement along the bishop's diagonal.
- fiat money — paper currency made legal tender by a fiat of the government, but not based on or convertible into coin.
- figuration — the act of shaping into a particular figure.
- filiations — Plural form of filiation.
- filtration — liquid that has been passed through a filter.
- flagstoned — Paved with flagstones.
- flagstones — Plural form of flagstone.
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flashpoint — Also, flashing point. Physical Chemistry. the lowest temperature at which a liquid in a specified apparatus will give off sufficient vapor to ignite momentarily on application of a flame.
- flat-woven — (of a carpet) woven without pile
- flexatones — Plural form of flexatone.
- flirtation — the act or practice of flirting; coquetry.
- floatation — an act or state of floating.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- 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.
- floriation — Ornamentation by means of flower forms, either realistic or stylized.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- flotations — Plural form of flotation.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- fontanelle — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- forestland — land containing or covered with forests.
- foretopman — a member of a ship's crew stationed on the foretop.
- 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
- 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.
- fortran 90 — (Previously "Fortran 8x" and "Fortran Extended") An extensive enlargement of Fortran 77. Fortran 90 has derived types, assumed shape arrays, array sections, functions returning arrays, case statement, module subprograms and internal subprograms, optional and keyword subprogram arguments, recursion, and dynamic allocation. It is defined in ISO 1539:1991, soon to be adopted by ANSI.
- fortran ii — 1958. Added subroutines.
- fortran iv — IBM 1962. For the IBM 7090/94. Many implementations went well beyond the original definition.
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.