10-letter words containing a, f
- bean-feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- beanfeasts — Plural form of beanfeast.
- bear fruit — plant: produce fruit
- beatifical — Beatific.
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- beautified — Simple past tense and past participle of beautify.
- beautifier — A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
- beautifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beautify.
- beautifull — Obsolete spelling of beautiful.
- beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- beefeaters — Plural form of beefeater.
- beefmaster — one of a breed of fast-growing beef cattle of the western U.S., tolerant of humidity, heat, and insects, developed by crossbreeding Brahman, Hereford, and Shorthorn stock.
- before-tax — before tax has been deducted; gross
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- beta fiber — a nonflammable glass fiber made into fabrics, insulation, etc.
- bifacially — from a bifacial point of view
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- black flag — a flag that is all or mostly black, esp. such a flag flown by a pirate ship
- black flux — a reducing flux consisting of finely divided carbon and potassium carbonate.
- black ruff — a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- brain fart — (jargon, humour) 1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"
- brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
- brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- broomstaff — a broomstick