10-letter words containing f
- fare stage — a section of a bus journey for which a set charge is made
- farebeater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farewelled — Simple past tense and past participle of farewell.
- farfetched — improbable; not naturally pertinent; being only remotely connected; forced; strained: He brought in a far-fetched example in an effort to prove his point.
- farmerette — a girl or woman working on a farm.
- farmhouses — Plural form of farmhouse.
- farmington — a city in NW New Mexico.
- farmsteads — Plural form of farmstead.
- farmworker — farm hand.
- farnsworth — Philo Taylor [fahy-loh] /ˈfaɪ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1906–71, U.S. physicist and inventor: pioneer in the field of television.
- farsighted — seeing objects at a distance more clearly than those near at hand; hyperopic.
- fart about — to behave foolishly or aimlessly
- fasciation — the act of binding up or bandaging.
- fascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- fasciculus — a fascicle, as of nerve or muscle fibers.
- fascinated — to attract and hold attentively by a unique power, personal charm, unusual nature, or some other special quality; enthrall: a vivacity that fascinated the audience.
- fascinates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fascinate.
- fascinator — a person or thing that fascinates.
- fasciotomy — (surgery) The cutting of the fascia to relieve tension or pressure (and treat the resulting loss of circulation to an area of tissue or muscle).
- fascistize — to make fascist; convert to fascism or a fascist philosophy or methods.
- fascistoid — Resembling fascism.
- fashioners — Plural form of fashioner.
- fashioning — a prevailing custom or style of dress, etiquette, socializing, etc.: the latest fashion in dresses.
- fashionist — (archaic) An obsequious follower of fashion.
- fassbinder — Rainer Werner [rahy-ner] /ˈraɪ nər/ (Show IPA), 1946–82, German film actor and director.
- fast ata-2 — Advanced Technology Attachment Interface with Extensions
- fast break — a play, as in basketball, in which a team quickly moves down the playing area in an attempt to score before an adequate defense can be set up
- fast pitch — a variety of softball in which the ball is pitched at a high speed with an underhand motion
- fast track — a racetrack dry and hard enough for optimum speed.
- fast-break — to execute or play in the style of a fast break.
- fast-count — to short-change.
- fast-track — of or relating to the fast track.
- fastballer — (baseball) One who pitches fastballs.
- fastenings — Plural form of fastening.
- faster lex — (language) (FLEX) A reimplementation of the Lex scanner generator, by Vern Paxson <[email protected]>. FTP flex-2.3.8.tar.Z from a GNU archive site or ftp://ftp.ee.lbl.gov/pub/flex-2.4.3.tar.Z.
- fastidious — excessively particular, critical, or demanding; hard to please: a fastidious eater.
- fastigiate — rising to a pointed top.
- fastnesses — Plural form of fastness.
- fat binary — (operating system) An executable file containing code for more than one CPU. The correct code is selected automatically at run time. This is convenient for distributing software and sharing it between multiple platforms.
- fat chance — having too much flabby tissue; corpulent; obese: a fat person.
- fat client — (networking) Opposite of "thin client".
- fat-finger — noting or pertaining to errors made by hitting the wrong key or button on a keyboard, keypad, or number pad: fat-finger dialing errors; a large number of typos evidencing the fat-finger syndrome.
- fat-witted — stupid; dull-witted.
- fatalistic — the acceptance of all things and events as inevitable; submission to fate: Her fatalism helped her to face death with stoic calm.
- fatalities — Plural form of fatality.
- fatbrained — slow-witted, stupid
- fatherhood — the state of being a father.
- fatherland — one's native country.
- fatherless — not having a living father: a fatherless boy.
- fatherlike — Having the qualities of a father.