10-letter words containing t, o, r, f
- perforatus — a muscle that bends a digit
- permafrost — (in arctic or subarctic regions) perennially frozen subsoil.
- petit four — a small teacake, variously frosted and decorated.
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pitchforks — a large, long-handled fork for manually lifting and pitching hay, stalks of grain, etc.
- pontefract — a city in West Yorkshire, in N central England, SE of Leeds: ruins of a 12th-century castle.
- postfreeze — taking place after a freeze
- pre-format — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- pre-notify — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- prefrontal — anterior to, situated in, or pertaining to the anterior part of a frontal structure.
- pro-profit — the monetary surplus left to a producer or employer after deducting wages, rent, cost of raw materials, etc.: The company works on a small margin of profit.
- profascist — a person who believes in or sympathizes with fascism.
- proficient — well-advanced or competent in any art, science, or subject; skilled: a proficient swimmer.
- profiction — the class of literature comprising works of imaginative narration, especially in prose form.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitless — Often, profits. pecuniary gain resulting from the employment of capital in any transaction. Compare gross profit, net profit. the ratio of such pecuniary gain to the amount of capital invested. returns, proceeds, or revenue, as from property or investments.
- profitwise — from the point of view of profit
- profligate — utterly and shamelessly immoral or dissipated; thoroughly dissolute.
- profulgent — radiant
- profundity — the quality or state of being profound; depth.
- proteiform — changeable in form; multiform
- proto-form — a hypothetical linguistic form reconstructed as an element of a protolanguage.
- punctiform — shaped like or of the nature of a point or dot.
- put in for — to request or apply for
- put up for — If you put something up for sale or auction, for example, you make it available to be sold or auctioned.
- quatrefoil — a leaf composed of four leaflets.
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- rattle off — If you rattle off something, you say it or do it very quickly and without much effort.
- ray floret — one of the marginal florets surrounding the disk of tubular florets in the flower heads of certain composite plants, as the daisy.
- reafforest — to replant (an area that was formerly forested)
- reef point — one of several short lengths of line stitched through a sail for tying a reef
- reflection — the act of reflecting, as in casting back a light or heat, mirroring, or giving back or showing an image; the state of being reflected in this way.
- reforecast — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refractory — hard or impossible to manage; stubbornly disobedient: a refractory child.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- richthofen — Baron Manfred von [mahn-freyt fuh n] /ˈmɑn freɪt fən/ (Show IPA), ("Red Baron"or"Red Knight") 1892–1918, German aviator.
- rifle shot — sound of shotgun fire
- riverfront — the land or property along a river; the section of a city or town along a river.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- roof light — a window built into a roof to admit light and ventilation
- root field — a field containing a given field in which every polynomial can be written as the product of linear factors.
- root graft — Horticulture. the process of grafting a shoot or stem of one plant onto a section of root of another.
- rotorcraft — a rotary-wing aircraft.
- run for it — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- run out of — to go quickly by moving the legs more rapidly than at a walk and in such a manner that for an instant in each step all or both feet are off the ground.
- rutherford — Daniel, 1749–1819, Scottish physician and chemist: discoverer of nitrogen.
- scoutcraft — practice of or skill at scouting.
- self-worth — the sense of one's own value or worth as a person; self-esteem; self-respect.