10-letter words containing f, l, o, c
- footcandle — Alt form foot candle.
- footlicker — A sycophant; a fawner; a toady.
- footlocker — A small trunk or storage chest, originally stored at the foot of a bed.
- force play — a situation in which a base runner is forced to advance to a base or to home plate as a result of the batter becoming a base runner or to make room for another base runner.
- forcefield — Alternative spelling of force field.
- forcefully — full of force; powerful; vigorous; effective: a forceful plea for peace.
- forclosing — Present participle of forclose.
- forclosure — Alternative form of foreclosure.
- forecastle — a superstructure at or immediately aft of the bow of a vessel, used as a shelter for stores, machinery, etc., or as quarters for sailors.
- foreclosed — Simple past tense and past participle of foreclose.
- forecloses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of foreclose.
- forinsecal — foreign
- form class — a class of words or forms in a given language that have one or more grammatical features in common, as, in Latin, all masculine nouns in the nominative singular, all masculine singular nouns, all masculine nouns, or all nouns.
- fortalices — Plural form of fortalice.
- four-color — noting or pertaining to a process for reproducing colored illustrations in a close approximation to their original hues by photographing the artwork successively through magenta, cyan, and yellow color-absorbing filters to produce four plates that are printed successively with yellow, red, blue, and black inks.
- four-cycle — noting or pertaining to an internal-combustion engine in which a complete cycle in each cylinder requires four strokes, one to draw in air or an air-fuel mixture, one to compress it, one to ignite it and do work, and one to scavenge the cylinder.
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- frictional — of, relating to, or of the nature of friction.
- frolicking — merry play; merriment; gaiety; fun.
- frolicsome — merrily playful; full of fun.
- full score — the entire score of a musical composition, showing each part separately
- functional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- gale-force — A gale-force wind is a very strong wind.
- glance off — If an object glances off something, it hits it at an angle and bounces away in another direction.
- gyrfalcons — Plural form of gyrfalcon.
- half crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- half-crown — a former silver or cupronickel coin of Great Britain equal to two shillings and sixpence: use phased out after decimalization in 1971.
- halfcocked — Simple past tense and past participle of halfcock.
- horrifical — Of or pertaining to horror.
- hyperfocal — relating to the distance beyond which a lens can be focused to produce satisfactory image quality
- inflection — modulation of the voice; change in pitch or tone of voice.
- infliction — the act of inflicting.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- land force — an armed force serving on land
- leaf coral — any red algae of the species Bossea orbigniana, common as a seaweed along the Pacific coast of the U.S., having calcified, flattened, jointed stems.
- life coach — a person who advises clients on how to solve their problems and reach their goals in life: A life coach can help you make the right decisions in your career.
- life force — élan vital.
- lipofuscin — any of several brown pigments similar to melanin that accumulate in animal cells with age and are products of oxidation of lipids and lipoproteins.
- lmgtfy.com — (humour, web) A somewhat sarcastic web service that animates the action of searching on Google. Instead of displaying the search results, the site creates a self-referential URL like that takes you to a page showing an animation of the actions of clicking in the Google search box, entering some text and clicking the submit button. It then takes you to the results on Google. The link is intended be sent to in answer to a question that could easily have been answered by Google. It is a more polite, if long-winded, way of saying JFGI or STFW. In the belief that it is better to teach a man to fish than to give him a fish, the service helps the recipient to help himself while succinctly conveying the message that he is too stupid to use Google.
- long-faced — having an unhappy or gloomy expression; glum.
- luciferous — bringing or providing light.
- lucifugous — Shunning the light.
- machoflops — /mach'oh-flops/ A pun on "megaflops" referring to the inflated performance figures often quoted by computer manufacturers. Real application programs are lucky to get half the quoted speed. See Your mileage may vary, benchmark.
- macroflora — Plants that can be seen with the naked eye.
- malefactor — a person who violates the law; criminal.
- matrifocal — of, relating to, or designating a family unit or structure headed by the mother and lacking a father permanently or for extended periods.
- microfilms — Plural form of microfilm.
- microflora — Biology. microscopic plants.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- multifocal — having several focuses.