10-letter words containing o, f, c
- food court — a space, as in a shopping mall, with a concentration of fast-food stalls and usually a common eating area.
- food cycle — food web
- food truck — a truck or van from which food is sold, as to people on the street.
- foodaholic — a person having an excessive, often uncontrollable craving for food.
- fool's cap — a traditional jester's cap or hood, often multicolored and usually having several drooping peaks from which bells are hung.
- foot score — a line at each end of the rink that is at right angles to its length.
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.
- for effect — If you say that someone is doing something for effect, you mean that they are doing it in order to impress people and to draw attention to themselves.
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- force down — eat with difficulty
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- force pump — a pump that delivers a liquid under pressure, so as to eject it forcibly.
- force-feed — to compel to take food, especially by means of a tube inserted into the throat: They force-fed the prisoners in the hunger strike.
- force-ripe — (of fruit) prematurely picked and ripened by squeezing or warm storage
- forcefield — Alternative spelling of force field.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forcipated — Like a pair of forceps.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- forclosure — Alternative form of foreclosure.
- fore-check — to obstruct or impede the movement or progress of an attacking opponent in the opponent's own defensive zone. Compare back-check, check1 (def 15).
- forecaddie — a caddie positioned on the course at a distance from the tee or a given lie, to locate balls after they are hit.
- 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.
- forechoose — (transitive) To prefer; choose in preference.
- forechosen — pre-selected
- foreclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreclose.
- forecloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreclose.
- forecourse — the lowermost sail on a square-rigged foremast; a square foresail.
- forecourts — Plural form of forecourt.
- foreshocks — Plural form of foreshock.
- forfeuchen — worn out; exhausted
- forinsecal — foreign
- form class — a class of words or forms in a given language that have one or more grammatical features in common, as, in Latin, all masculine nouns in the nominative singular, all masculine singular nouns, all masculine nouns, or all nouns.
- 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.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- fosfomycin — A broad-spectrum antibiotic, 3-methyloxiran-2-ylphosphonic acid, obtained from certain Streptomyces bacteria.
- fossicking — Present participle of fossick.
- four-a-cat — four old cat.
- four-color — noting or pertaining to a process for reproducing colored illustrations in a close approximation to their original hues by photographing the artwork successively through magenta, cyan, and yellow color-absorbing filters to produce four plates that are printed successively with yellow, red, blue, and black inks.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.