10-Letter Words Starting with F

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Downright and firm: Colloq.

Downright and firm Colloq.

One from the prairie

Prairie resident

Flatness

Flattener

Making a pancake (wordplay)

Evening out

Those who get nowhere (wordplay)

Praise be for those like this!

Soft soap purveyors

Soft soapings.

Praises side order, including coffee order

Adulator's forte

*Producing rattling noises

Sycophantic

Uncle felt a change in the wind

Flue can let out gas

What a whoopee cushion imitates

The state or quality of being flatulent.

Flatwash

Flaunty

Flavanone

Flavonoid

Flavoring

Flavorist

Without flavor; tasteless. Opposite of flavorful.flavorful.

Tasty

Supporting lecturer inside who is adding taste

Without a mistake

Comparative adjective or agent noun

In a flippant manner.

Toying with someone's affections

Wink, perhaps

Playful amorous advances

Life jacket's purpose variable

Aircraft that doesn't need a runway

Aircraft that excels at water landings

Aircraft with pontoons

(Chemistry) a substance added to a suspension to enhance aggregation of the suspended particles

To aggregate into small lumps.

Inundate tech VIP Bill (wordplay)

Curt & Bill's favorite parts of dams (wordplay)

Surge protectors

Regular current deposits placed here

Land adjacent to a river, often

Bad place to live when the river rises

Corps of Engineers concern

Cause of inundation

Bank threat

Where a foot rests

Squeak source, at times

Leave clueless directors supporting plank

""Ornamentation by means of flower forms, whether closely imitated or conventionalized.""

Plant bearing dense clusters of flowers

Rose with clusters of flowers

Rose with flower clusters

""Pl. florilegia (-j - ) A collection of excerpts from written texts, especially works of literature.""

Flotation

Diagrams that show step-by-step progressions through systems: 2 wds.

Flowerage

Wasn't consistent

Isn't steady

""To subject to fluoridation, as of water; to add fluoride to.""

""FLUORINE a gaseous element, also FLUORIN""

Fluorspar

""Belonging to rivers or streams; existing in or about rivers; produced by river action; fluvial; as, fluviatile starta, plants. as, fluviatile starta, plants.""

Bird one's seen on the web (wordplay)

Winger tucking contract inside leaflet

Shrewd fielder in sticky leg trap

Buzzer beater (wordplay)

Thing causing a buzz kill (wordplay)

Low-tech pest-control device

False miterwort

Focalise

Focalize

""Belonging to, or having the texture or nature of, a leaf; having leaves intermixed with flowers; as, a foliaceous spike. as, a foliaceous spike.""

Foliation

""Like, pertaining to, or consisting of, a follicles or follicles.""

Soft spot

Fellow has not managed to get a Frenchwoman to show soft spot

Back (or forward?)

Otto Graham is one

Soccer player, abroad

Parts of beds.

Footfault

Having foramina; full of holes; porous.

Forbearer

Moderate use of compass (wordplay)

Patient under provocation

Why there are patient porters

Forcemeat

Slightly odd foreign parts to entertain a fighting force preparing in advance

Forebrain

""CADDIE to serve as a golfer's assistant, also CADDY""

Forecast

Predicter (of, eg, weather)

Rain man (wordplay)

One predicting the future

Close after mixing in crew's quarters

Rook's after front place on board

Divine, the French crew's accommodation

Foredate

He came earlier for the fancy feather

One very high up a tree given warning by priest

He's back on the line with new offer (change of heart)

Meet old boy being entertained by dad

Circumspect

Early.

Prudent.

Some jury heads

Prearrange fire on road, slippery

Predetermine

Predetermine Fed's choice of letter? American with it

PASSED pass

Give a warning

Advance warning to rewash food fresh

Warning cry of course with silhouette

Foreshank

Forespeak

Forestage

Acts in advance of.

Thwarts by advance action

Hinders all in the woodlands

Words in Texas's topography

Foreswear

TASTED taste

Advance warnings

TOPMAN a seaman in the top sail

Given advanced notice

Cautioned in advance.

Gave notice beforehand

Forgather

Possible to excuse lover if bag is repaired

FORGIVE to {pardon=v}

Given legal status supporting African country's education

Formalise

Formalism

Formalist

""Concerned with or characterized by rigorous adherence to recognized forms, especially in religion or art; using formalism; as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".as, highly formalized plays like "Waiting for Godot".""

""FORMALIZE To give form, or a certain form, to; to model.""

Formalize

FORMAL a social event that requires evening dress

Formamide

Formation

Formative

Formatter

Format

Having awesome power

Hard to overcome.

Record I had accomplished hard to beat

In a formidable manner.

Reduced to a systematic form; reduced to a formula.

Devises, as a theory

""FORMULATE To reduce to, or express in, a formula; to put in a clear and definite form of statement or expression.""

Vaulted like an oven or furnace; arched.

Fornicate

""An unmarried person, male or female, who has criminal intercourse with the other sex; one guilty of fornication.""

Plants named for a Scottish botanist

Fortalice

Loud and then soft, in music

Strong suit with set of keys sounds loud then soft

Tends to be fortified with energy by soft type with old musical accompaniment

Forwarder

Forward

Passing on hawk-like ring

Fosterage

2008 album by Zac Brown Band, with "The"

Artificial jet of water

Cosmetic base for trust in the NHS

Fountain

Military decoration.

Outspoken quartet's address (wordplay)

Outspoken quartet's address?

That's firmly for sixteen, perhaps

Insignificant part, one length

Not the whole of trial can collapse

Like parts that could be oral, in fact

Fraction

Creating a split

Incomplete

Disconnected.

River contains shredded garment with bits broken off

Working men grafted and split up

In bits

Disorganized

Frankincense and myrrh, but not gold

FRAGRANT having a pleasant perfume

Frambesia

Framboise

""Of, pertaining to, or causing a type of mutation consisting of the insertion or deletion of one or more nucleotides in the nucleic acid structure of a gene, when the number of base pairs inserted or deleted is not a multiple of three. If the addition or deletion occurs in multiples of three, the unaffected nucleotides in the genome remain in the proper order ("frame") to be correctly translated into protein; in such cases of insertions or deletions not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.not causing a frame shift, a functional though altered protein may be produced by the organism. Frameshift mutations cause more profound changes in the composition of the protein resulting from translation of the mutated gene.""

Theoretical structures

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Certain shop owner

One granted retail rights

McDonald's owner, for example

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Thunder and Lightning, for example

Thunder and Lightning, e.g

Individual stores of chains, often

FRANCHISE Exemption from constraint or oppression; freedom; liberty.

Francolin

Short honest soldier hears Sting and Cream

Creamy almond-flavoured filling - a finger pan (anagram)

Cream in cooking vessel around which a finger whipped!

Its blooms are used in leis

Fragrant flower used in leis

Shrub in far gap in ground

Frankfurt

Alpha males' group (wordplay)

Men's group.

Galsworthy's brotherhood

Buddy up with

Be chummy with.

Associate with.

Murder of a brother

Killing of a brother

The killing of a brother

A flu turned nasty and deceptive

Bent fault under quakes

Intended to deceive

Fraught

Herb with white flowers that emit hot flammable vapour in hot weather

""Freakier , freakiest Strange or unusual; freakish.""

""FREAKISH quirkily unusual, also FREAKFUL, FREAKY""

Freebaser

Freebase

Freeboard

A woman who has been freed from slavery. Correlative of freedman.freedman.

Generous letters he has delivered outside

Generous

FREELANCE a person who acts independently or without authorization of an organization or of his superiors.

Day-rate charger, perhaps

Outside worker (wordplay)

Charitable surgeon (wordplay)

'Fargo' Oscar winner McDormand

Fargo Oscar winner McDormand

Moonlights

Freeload

Nonpaying party-goer Slang.

One who mooches

Sponge of a sort

Sterile female twin calf

Unregulated market accepted defective calf

Female anger over a number of goods

Crew packed in cloth between edges of fragile goods

/Cargo/

Dude, nice triatomic molecule!

Like some fish (2 words)

Could it make ferret wash (wordplay)

Readily crumbled; brittle: friable asbestos insulation.

Cushion-shaped piece of veal

Larded and braised veal fillet

Larded and braided veal fillet

Fricando

""FRICASSEE A dish made of fowls, veal, or other meat of small animals cut into pieces, and stewed in a gravy.""

Cooks bring in container holding special dishes

Cooks carrying carton containing small things on the menu (wordplay)

Fricative

Like stories about king, producing resistance to movement

It's not true about resistance being caused by abrasiveness

Crullers

25 plough through Tuckhouse (wordplay)

Plant register found in monastery

Plant of the lily family

FRONTAL a bone of the skull

Frontward

Certain vegan

Yes: bananas, pecans, sunflower seeds; No: steak, broccoli, bread

Holiday doorstops (wordplay)

Yuletide sweets

Shaking one's head, maybe

Prevented from progressing

Disappointingly unsuccessful

Following corrosion, charges for foils

Gets one's goat

Thwarts

Fugacity

FULGURATE To flash as lightning.

Fulgurate

""FULMINATE To thunder; hence, to make a loud, sudden noise; to detonate; to explode with a violent report.""

Fulminate

Where things are treated with smoke and vapor

Treating to remove infestation

Means of dealing with some infestations

Fumigator

Occasion on which a student is working

Working to sort out final count

Working out final count

Fundament

Merriment authentic in cathedral? It's without joy!

Lacking joy and merriment, having little energy in fact

FUNGICIDE Anything that kills fungi.

Funicular

English word

Furbearer

Furcation

Fusillade

FUSTIGATE To cudgel.

Beats American childrenOs game in 'Three Sisters'