10-letter words containing n, o, a, i, r
- 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
- 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.
- 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 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.
- 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).
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franconian — a group of West Germanic dialects or languages, consisting of Frankish and the dialects descended from Frankish.
- frappucino — Any of several forms of partially frozen cappuccino coffee.
- frictional — of, relating to, or of the nature of friction.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- frontality — the representation of the front view of figures or objects in a work of art.
- fulminator — One who fulminates, or criticizes intensely.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form
- gadrooning — ornamentation with gadroons.
- gamma iron — Metallurgy. an allotrope of iron, stable between 910°C and 1400°C and having a face-centered cubic lattice.
- gangliform — having the form of a ganglion.
- garrisoned — a body of troops stationed in a fortified place.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- girandoles — Plural form of girandole.
- glamouring — Present participle of glamour.
- glandiform — (anatomy) Shaped like, resembling, or characteristic of glands.
- go-carting — Go-carting is the sport of racing or riding on go-carts.
- go-karting — racing in small vehicle
- godfearing — Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
- gorgonians — Plural form of gorgonian.
- gormandise — Alternative spelling of gourmandise.
- gormandism — Alternative form of gourmandism.
- gormandize — gourmandise1 .
- gradations — any process or change taking place through a series of stages, by degrees, or in a gradual manner.
- graduation — an act of graduating; the state of being graduated.
- gramineous — grasslike.
- granulosis — a disease that predominantly affects larval Lepidoptera and which causes loss of appetite and sluggishness
- gravitonic — Relating to gravitons.
- griffonage — (rare) Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.
- groundbait — chum2 (def 1).
- gyniolatry — an extreme form of love and attachment to women
- gynocratic — Pertaining to government by women.
- gyrational — Of, pertaining to, or caused by gyration.
- hanoverian — of or relating to the former ruling house of Hanover.