10-letter words containing r, s, f
- fortnights — Plural form of fortnight.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- fortressed — Simple past tense and past participle of fortress.
- fortresses — Plural form of fortress.
- fortuities — Plural form of fortuity.
- fortuitism — the doctrine that evolutionary adaptations are the result of chance
- fortuitous — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
- 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.
- founderous — likely to cause foundering; miry; swampy.
- four flush — a useless poker hand, containing four of a suit and one odd card
- four-flush — to bluff.
- 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.
- fourscorth — eightieth
- foursquare — consisting of four corners and four right angles; square: a solid, foursquare building.
- frabjously — In a frabjous manner; wonderfully, fabulously.
- fragrances — Plural form of fragrance.
- framboesia — yaws.
- 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.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- 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.
- franchisor — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.
- francis ii — Francis I (def 2).
- franciscan — of or relating to St. Francis or the Franciscans.
- frankfurts — a small, cooked and smoked sausage of beef or beef and pork, with or without casing; hot dog; wiener.
- franz lisp — (language) A MacLisp-like dialect of Lisp, developed primarily for work in symbolic algebra by R. Fateman et al at Ucb in about 1980. It was named after the Hungarian composer Franz Liszt (1811-1886). Franz Lisp was written in C and includes a compiler called "Liszt". Version: Opus 38.22. Liszt 8.08.
- fraternise — to associate in a fraternal or friendly way.
- fraternism — (obsolete) fraternization.
- fraudsters — Plural form of fraudster.
- 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.
- freckliest — Superlative form of freckly.
- free house — a tavern that, having no affiliation or contract with a particular brewery, serves several brands of beer, ale, etc.
- free press — a body of book publishers, news media, etc., not controlled or restricted by government censorship in political or ideological matters.
- free sheet — paper made entirely from chemical pulp and therefore free of groundwood.
- free skate — a freestyle competition with no required elements, in which skaters perform an original program of jumps, spins, sequences, etc., to music of their choice.
- free space — unused memory or storage
- free state — U.S. History. (before the Civil War) a state in which slavery was prohibited.
- free verse — verse that does not follow a fixed metrical pattern.
- freeganism — a person who buys as little as possible and makes use of recycled or discarded goods and materials, in an effort to reduce waste and limit environmental impact.
- freelances — Plural form of freelance.
- 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.