10-letter words containing fo
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
- caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
- calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
- california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)
- call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cat's-foot — a European plant, Antennaria dioica, with whitish woolly leaves and heads of typically white flowers: family Asteraceae (composites)
- centerfold — A centerfold is a picture that covers the two central pages of a magazine, especially a photograph of a naked or partly naked woman.
- centrefold — A centrefold is a picture that covers the two central pages of a magazine, especially a photograph of a naked or partly naked woman.
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- cheffonier — A tall, elegant chest of drawers, often with a mirror attached.
- chelmsford — a city in SE England, administrative centre of Essex: electronics, retail; university (1992). Pop: 99 962 (2001)
- chiffonade — finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish
- chiffonier — a tall, elegant chest of drawers, originally intended for holding needlework
- chifforobe — an article of furniture that comprises a chest of drawers and a wardrobe
- chloroform — Chloroform is a colourless liquid with a strong sweet smell, which makes you unconscious if you breathe its vapour.
- choreiform — resembling the signs and indications of chorea
- cinquefoil — any plant of the N temperate rosaceous genus Potentilla, typically having five-lobed compound leaves
- claim form — an application form for claiming financial compensation
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.
- clypeiform — having a rounded shield shape
- co-founder — a person who founds or establishes something with another.
- cofounders — a person who founds or establishes something with another.
- cofounding — to establish (an organization) with another or others.
- coltsfoots — Plural form of coltsfoot.
- comforters — Plural form of comforter.
- comforting — If you say that something is comforting, you mean it makes you feel less worried or unhappy.
- conchiform — shaped like a shell
- confocally — in a confocal manner
- conformant — In accordance with a set of specifications.
- conformers — Plural form of conformer.
- conforming — to act in accordance or harmony; comply (usually followed by to): to conform to rules.
- conformism — the tendency to adopt the attitudes, behaviour, dress, etc, of the group to which one belongs
- conformist — Someone who is conformist behaves or thinks like everyone else rather than doing things that are original.
- conformity — If something happens in conformity with something such as a law or someone's wishes, it happens as the law says it should, or as the person wants it to.
- confounded — bewildered; confused
- confounder — to perplex or amaze, especially by a sudden disturbance or surprise; bewilder; confuse: The complicated directions confounded him.
- coryneform — resembling a corynebacterium
- cotyliform — shaped like a cup
- cribriform — pierced with holes; sievelike
- cristiform — crest-shaped
- cross-foot — Accounting. to total figures horizontally across columns instead of vertically.
- cuculiform — of, relating to, or belonging to the order Cuculiformes, which includes the cuckoos
- cucumiform — shaped like a cucumber
- culiciform — resembling a gnat