10-letter words containing o, r, a, t, e
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- 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.
- 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.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- gansevoort — Peter, 1749–1812, U.S. general: soldier in the American Revolutionary War.
- gasometers — Plural form of gasometer.
- gasteropod — Gastropod.
- gastrocele — (anatomy) A cavity in the embryonic gastrula.
- gastrocoel — archenteron.
- gastroderm — endoderm
- gastronome — a connoisseur of good food; gourmet; epicure.
- gear ratio — the ratio of the rotational speeds of the first and final gears in a train of gears or of any two meshing gears.
- generation — the entire body of individuals born and living at about the same time: the postwar generation.
- generators — Plural form of generator.
- geolocator — A device that permits geolocation.
- geothermal — of or relating to the internal heat of the earth.
- geratology — the study of the diminution or decline of life, as in an individual animal or a species approaching extinction.
- germantown — a NW section of Philadelphia, Pa.: American defeat by British 1777.
- get across — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- get around — to receive or come to have possession, use, or enjoyment of: to get a birthday present; to get a pension.
- glomerated — Simple past tense and past participle of glomerate.
- go private — to restore private ownership of a corporation by buying back publicly held stock
- goaltender — a goalkeeper.
- goat's-rue — Also called catgut. a hairy American plant, Tephrosia virginiana, of the legume family, having yellow and pink flowers.
- goatsbeard — any of several composite plants of the genus Tragopogon, especially T. pratensis, having yellow flower heads.
- goatsucker — nightjar (def 2).
- godfathers — Plural form of godfather.
- godparents — Plural form of godparent.
- goldbeater — a person who pounds gold into thin leaves for use in gilding
- goldthread — a white-flowered plant, Coptis trifolia, of the buttercup family, having a slender, yellow root that is sometimes used as a tonic.
- governante — a housekeeper
- grace note — a note not essential to the harmony or melody, added as an embellishment, especially an appoggiatura.
- grapestone — the seed of a grape.
- grapholect — an established and standardized written language
- graptolite — any colonial animal of the extinct class Graptolithina, most common in the Ordovician and Silurian Periods, thought to be related to the pterobranchs.
- graveolent — That has a rank smell.
- gravestone — a stone marking a grave, usually giving the name, date of death, etc., of the person buried there.
- great ouse — Ouse (def 2).
- great room — a large, open room in a house, especially a living room that doubles as a family room or dining room.
- great worm — Internet Worm
- greatcoats — Plural form of greatcoat.
- greatsword — Any generally straight bladed double edged sword large enough that it required the use of two hands to wield it effectively.
- groceteria — a grocery store in which customers pick up products from shelves and pay for them on leaving the store, as opposed to one in which they are served by a shop assistant
- groupmates — Plural form of groupmate.
- gubernator — a governor
- gynecocrat — gynarchy.
- gyneolatry — The adoration or worship of women.
- haemometer — A hemadynamometer.