10-letter words containing r, f, e
- flurriedly — a light, brief shower of snow.
- flustering — Agitated, confusing.
- flustrated — flustered; agitated.
- fluttering — Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
- fly killer — a device or chemical substance used to kill flying insects
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fly-strike — myiasis.
- fly-tipper — a person who deliberately dumps rubbish in an unauthorized place
- flycatcher — any of numerous Old World birds of the family Muscicapidae, that feed on insects captured in the air.
- flypitcher — a person who has a flypitch
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flyswatter — A hand-held device for swatting flies or other insects, to kill or shoo them.
- foamflower — a North American plant, Tiarella cordifolia, having a cluster of small, usually white flowers.
- 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.
- fodderbeet — sugar beet used as fodder.
- foederatus — A confederate. One of the tribes bound by treaty, who were neither Roman colonies nor had they been granted Roman citizenship but were expected to provide a contingent of fighting men when trouble arose.
- fog forest — the thick forest growth at fairly high elevations on tropical mountains, where there is a prevalence of clouds, high humidity, and mild temperature.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- food mixer — A food mixer is a piece of electrical equipment that is used to mix food such as cake mixture.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- foot score — a line at each end of the rink that is at right angles to its length.
- footballer — a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
- footbridge — a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
- 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.
- for shame! — you ought to be ashamed! here is cause for shame!
- for toffee — to be incompetent at a specified activity
- forage cap — (formerly) a small, low, undress cap.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forbearers — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- 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.
- forclosure — Alternative form of foreclosure.
- fore plane — a plane, intermediate in size between a jack plane and a jointer plane, used for preliminary smoothing.
- 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).
- fore-stage — the part of a stage in front of the curtain
- forearming — Present participle of forearm.
- forebearer — Uncommon variant of forebear.
- forebelief — A previous belief.