10-letter words containing o, f, c
- fictioneer — a writer of fiction, especially a prolific one whose works are of mediocre quality.
- fictionist — a writer of fiction; a novelist or short-story writer.
- fictionize — fictionalize.
- fictitious — created, taken, or assumed for the sake of concealment; not genuine; false: fictitious names.
- field coil — a coil that generates a magnetic field when an electric current is passed through it: used in various electrical devices, as motors, generators, or electromagnets.
- field corn — feed corn grown for stock.
- field crop — any of the herbaceous plants grown on a large scale in cultivated fields: primarily a grain, forage, sugar, oil, or fiber crop.
- fiercesome — (nonstandard, dialect) fierce.
- fimicolous — of or relating to an organism that lives on or in animal excrement.
- first-come — arranged, considered, or done in order of application or arrival, as for purposes of service: orders filled on a first-come basis.
- firstcomer — a person who arrives first or among the first.
- fixed cost — a cost unvarying with a change in the volume of business (distinguished from variable cost).
- flacourtia — designating a family (Flacourtiaceae, order Violales) of dicotyledonous tropical trees and shrubs
- flanconade — in fencing, a thrust in the side
- flash-lock — stanch1 (def 5).
- flint corn — a variety of corn, Zea mays indurata, having very hard-skinned kernels not subject to shrinkage.
- flintlocks — Plural form of flintlock.
- flocculant — a chemical for producing flocculation of suspended particles, as to improve the plasticity of clay for ceramic purposes.
- flocculate — to form into flocculent masses.
- flocculent — like a clump or tuft of wool.
- floorcloth — a cloth for washing or wiping floors.
- floorcover — material, especially a nonfabric material, as linoleum, vinyl tile, or ceramic tile, used to cover a floor.
- florescent — the act, state, or period of flowering; bloom.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- floristics — the study of the distribution, number, types, and relationships of plant species in an area or areas.
- flosculous — (botany) Consisting of many gamopetalous florets.
- flow chart — Also called flow sheet. a detailed diagram or chart of the operations and equipment through which material passes, as in a manufacturing process.
- flowcharts — Plural form of flowchart.
- fluidounce — Alternative form of fluid ounce.
- fluocerite — (mineral) A cerium fluoride mineral found in Sweden.
- fluohydric — (chemistry) hydrofluoric.
- fluoresced — Simple past tense and past participle of fluoresce.
- fluorescer — something that fluoresces; a fluorescent substance
- fluoresces — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fluoresce.
- fly orchid — a European orchid, Ophrys insectifera, whose flowers resemble and attract certain wasps: found in wood margins and scrub on lime-rich soils
- focal area — (in dialect geography) an area whose dialect has exerted influence on the dialects of surrounding areas, as reflected in a set of isoglosses more or less concentrically surrounding it.
- focalizing — Present participle of focalize.
- foetoscope — (chiefly, British) alternative spelling of fetoscope.
- foetoscopy — Alternative form of fetoscopy.
- foliaceous — of, like, or of the nature of a plant leaf; leaflike.
- folic acid — a water-soluble vitamin that is converted to a coenzyme essential to purine and thymine biosynthesis: deficiency causes a form of anemia.
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folk magic — any attempt to practice charms, spells, etc., to control events or people.
- folk music — music, usually of simple character and anonymous authorship, handed down among the common people by oral tradition.
- folklorico — Mexican folk dancing, especially a program or repertoire of such dances.
- follically — Alternative spelling of follicly.
- follicular — pertaining to, consisting of, or resembling a follicle or follicles; provided with follicles.
- folliculin — estrone.
- fonticulus — a fontanelle of the cranium
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms