10-letter words starting with f
- felicitous — well-suited for the occasion, as an action, manner, or expression; apt; appropriate: The chairman's felicitous anecdote set everyone at ease.
- felineness — (uncountable) The state of being feline.
- felixstowe — a port and resort in E England, in Suffolk: ferry connections to Rotterdam and Zeebrugge. Pop: 29 349 (2001)
- fellatio's — oral stimulation of the penis, especially to orgasm.
- fellatrice — a female fellator
- fellmonger — a preparer of skins or hides of animals, especially sheepskins, prior to leather making.
- fellow men — if you refer to people as your fellow men, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fellowship — the condition or relation of being a fellow: the fellowship of humankind.
- fellwalker — a person who hikes over fells
- felo de se — a person who commits suicide or commits an unlawful malicious act resulting in his or her own death.
- felo-de-se — a person who commits suicide or commits an unlawful malicious act resulting in his or her own death.
- felsenmeer — an area that is usually found on gentle slopes above the timberline, covered with a layer of weathered rocks and boulders
- felspathic — feldspathic.
- femalelike — Resembling or characteristic of a female.
- femaleness — a person bearing two X chromosomes in the cell nuclei and normally having a vagina, a uterus and ovaries, and developing at puberty a relatively rounded body and enlarged breasts, and retaining a beardless face; a girl or woman.
- feminality — The quality of being feminal; femininity.
- feminility — feminine nature, qualities or characteristics
- femininely — In a feminine manner.
- femininism — the state of quality of being feminine
- femininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
- feministic — advocating social, political, legal, and economic rights for women equal to those of men.
- feminizing — Tending to make more feminine.
- femtometer — fermi. Symbol: fm.
- femtometre — 10-15 of a metre. Symbol: fm.
- fence post — stake or picket of a fence
- fenderless — Without a fender.
- feneration — the lending of money on interest.
- fenestella — a small aperture in the front of an altar, containing relics
- fenestrate — Fenestrated.
- fenoprofen — a white crystalline powder, C 30 H 26 CaO 6 , used as an antipyretic, analgesic, and anti-inflammatory in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
- fepped out — (jargon) /fept owt/ The Symbolics 3600 LISP Machine has a Front-End Processor (FEP). When the main processor gets wedged, the FEP takes control of the keyboard and screen. Such a machine is said to have "fepped out" or "dropped into the fep".
- feretories — Plural form of feretory.
- fergiegate — the scandal resulting from a News of the World sting operation in which Sarah Ferguson, the Duchess of York, was videotaped offering access to her former husband, Prince Andrew, for £500,000
- fermenters — Plural form of fermenter.
- fermenting — Present participle of ferment.
- fermentive — tending to cause fermentation
- fernando i — Ferdinand I (def 1).
- ferntickle — a freckle
- ferredoxin — any of a group of red-brown proteins containing iron and sulfur and acting as an electron carrier during photosynthesis, nitrogen fixation, or oxidation-reduction reactions.
- ferret out — a domesticated, usually red-eyed, and albinic variety of the polecat, used in Europe for driving rabbits and rats from their burrows.
- ferroalloy — an alloy of iron with some element other than carbon, used to introduce the element in the manufacture of steel.
- ferrofluid — A fluid containing a magnetic suspension.
- ferrograms — plural of Ferrogram
- ferroniere — jewel, on a chain, worn on the forehead
- ferrotypes — Plural form of ferrotype.
- ferruginol — (organic compound) A diterpene of the abietane chemical class that has been isolated from the needles of the redwood Sequoia sempervirens.
- ferry port — a town or place alongside navigable water with facilities for the loading and unloading of ferries
- ferryboats — Plural form of ferryboat.
- fertilised — Simple past tense and past participle of fertilise.
- fertiliser — Alternative spelling of fertilizer.