10-letter words containing r, e, o, f, n
- fort payne — a town in NE Alabama.
- fort wayne — a city in NE Indiana.
- 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.
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- foster son — a boy raised like one's own son, though not such by birth or adoption.
- fosterling — foster child.
- fosterment — The act of fostering or encouraging something.
- foundering — (of a ship, boat, etc.) to fill with water and sink.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- fourteener — a line, especially an iambic line, consisting of 14 syllables.
- fourteenth — next after the thirteenth; being the ordinal number for 14.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fraunhofer — Joseph von [joh-zuh f von,, -suh f;; German yoh-zef fuh n] /ˈdʒoʊ zəf vɒn,, -səf;; German ˈyoʊ zɛf fən/ (Show IPA), 1787–1826, German optician and physicist.
- free-blown — (of glass) blown and shaped manually and without the use of a mold. Compare blown-molded, offhand (def 5).
- freedwoman — a woman who has been freed from slavery.
- freedwomen — Plural form of freedwoman.
- freemasons — a member of a widely distributed secret order (Free and Accepted Masons) having for its object mutual assistance and the promotion of brotherly love among its members.
- freestones — Plural form of freestone.
- french pox — (in historical use) syphilis.
- freshwoman — A female first-year student at a university, college, or high school.
- friendhood — The state, quality, or condition of being a friend or friends.
- frithsoken — (from Old English) a refuge; a sanctuary
- 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 desk — a desk at which a receptionist works, as in an office.
- front line — war: battlefront
- front nine — the first nine holes on an eighteen-hole course.
- front-line — located or designed to be used at a military front line: a front-line ambulance helicopter.
- front-page — of major importance; worth putting on the first page of a newspaper.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- frontlines — Plural form of frontline.
- frontwomen — Plural form of frontwoman.
- frost line — the maximum depth at which soil is frozen.
- frostiness — The quality of being frosty.
- frothiness — The quality of being frothy.
- frozen fog — (especially in the far north) a fog composed of minute ice crystals that form in the air in extremely cold temperatures.
- frozenness — The quality of being frozen.
- fundholder — (British) a general practitioner who manages his own budget, purchasing healthcare from one or more hospital trusts.
- funeration — (obsolete) the act of burying with funeral rites.
- funnelform — shaped like a funnel, as the corolla of the morning-glory; infundibuliform.
- furanoside — any glycoside compound in the furanose form
- get on for — to approach (a time, amount, age, etc.)
- godfearing — Acting with obedience to rules established by a deity out of fear of the power of that deity.
- green roof — a roof covered with vegetation, designed for its aesthetic value and to optimize energy conservation
- griffonage — (rare) Careless handwriting; A crude or illegible scrawl.
- groundfire — small arms fire directed against aircraft from the ground.
- harden off — to accustom (a cultivated plant) or (of such a plant) to become accustomed to outdoor conditions by repeated exposure
- henceforth — from now on; from this point forward.
- henry ford — Elizabeth Bloomer ("Betty") 1918–2011, U.S. First Lady 1974–77 (wife of Gerald R. Ford).
- holofernes — (in the Book of Judith) a general, serving Nebuchadnezzar, who was killed by Judith.