10-letter words containing r, f, e
- forty-five — a cardinal number, 40 plus 5.
- forty-nine — a cardinal number, 40 plus 9.
- fortypenny — being 5 inches (13 cm) long: a fortypenny nail. Symbol: 40d.
- forwarders — Plural form of forwarder.
- 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.
- 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.
- four-wheel — having four wheels.
- fourbagger — home run.
- fourchette — Anatomy. the fold of skin that forms the posterior margin of the vulva.
- fourfooted — Having four feet.
- fourierism — the social system proposed by François Marie Charles Fourier, under which society was to be organized into phalanxes or associations, each large enough for all industrial and social requirements.
- fourposter — a bed with four corner posts, as for supporting a canopy, curtains, etc.
- fourragere — an ornament of cord worn on the shoulder.
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.
- 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.
- fragmental — fragmentary.
- fragmented — reduced to fragments.
- fragrances — Plural form of fragrance.
- framboesia — yaws.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- frame rate — (graphics) The number of frames of an animation which are displayed every second, measured in frames per second (fps). The higher the frame rate, the smoother the animation will appear but the more processing power and system bandwidth is required. At less than 30 fps, the human eye can see the new pictures coming onto the screen.
- frame tent — a tent consisting of fabric stretched over a frame
- framemaker — (text) A commercial document preparation program produced by Frame Technology Corporation who were taken over by Adobe Systems, Inc. in 1995/6. FrameMaker is available for a wide variety of workstations and is designed for technical and scientific documents. It uses a powerful system of templates and paragraph styles to control WYSIWYG formatting. It supports graphics, tables, and contents pages among other things. Version: FrameMaker 6, due April 2000. See also Maker Interchange Format.
- frameshift — the addition or deletion of one or more nucleotides in a strand of DNA, which shifts the codon triplets of the genetic code of messenger RNA and causes a misreading during translation, resulting in an aberrant protein and therefore a mutation.
- frameworks — Plural form of framework.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- franchises — Plural form of franchise.
- frangipane — a kind of pastry cake, filled with cream, almonds, and sugar.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- fraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- fraternize — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fratricide — a person who kills his or her brother.
- fraudsters — Plural form of fraudster.
- fraudulent — characterized by, involving, or proceeding from fraud, as actions, enterprise, methods, or gains: a fraudulent scheme to evade taxes.
- frauenfeld — a canton in NE Switzerland. 388 sq. mi. (1005 sq. km). Capital: Frauenfeld.
- fraughtage — (obsolete) freight; cargo.
- 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.
- fraxinella — gas plant.
- freak show — a display of people or animals with unusual or grotesque physical features, as at a circus or carnival sideshow.
- freakiness — freakish.
- freakishly — queer; odd; unusual; grotesque: a freakish appearance.