10-letter words containing o, f, a, c, e
- forecasted — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forecaster — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forecastle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- forinsecal — foreign
- formicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of formicate.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- 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.
- gale-force — A gale-force wind is a very strong wind.
- glance off — If an object glances off something, it hits it at an angle and bounces away in another direction.
- hacked off — (jargon) (Analogous to "pissed off") Said of system administrators who have become annoyed, upset, or touchy owing to suspicions that their sites have been or are going to be victimised by crackers, or used for inappropriate, technically illegal, or even overtly criminal activities. For example, having unreadable files in your home directory called "worm", "lockpick", or "goroot" would probably be an effective (as well as impressively obvious and stupid) way to get your sysadmin hacked off at you.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- hovercraft — ACV.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- in case of — as a precaution against
- in face of — despite
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- leaf coral — any red algae of the species Bossea orbigniana, common as a seaweed along the Pacific coast of the U.S., having calcified, flattened, jointed stems.
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- long-faced — having an unhappy or gloomy expression; glum.
- main-force — pertaining to regular military units with standard uniforms and equipment.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- modificate — (obsolete) To qualify.
- moon-faced — having a very round face, regarded as resembling a full moon.
- neofascism — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- neofascist — any of various political movements or beliefs inspired by or reminiscent of fascism or Nazism.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- oceanfront — the land along the shore of an ocean.
- of a piece — a separate or limited portion or quantity of something: a piece of land; a piece of chocolate.
- off camera — If you do something or if something happens off camera, you do it or it happens when not being filmed.
- off chance — See at chance (def 17).
- off-camera — occurring as part of a film or program but outside the range of the motion-picture or television camera: the off-camera shouts of a mob.
- off-chance — See at chance (def 17).
- officerial — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- officiated — Simple past tense and past participle of officiate.
- officiates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of officiate.
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- open-faced — having a frank or ingenuous face.
- overaffect — To have too great an effect on.
- overfacile — excessively facile
- poker face — an expressionless face: He can tell a funny story with a poker face.
- pomace fly — vinegar fly.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- racemiform — having the form of a raceme.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.