10-letter words containing d, f, a
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- 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
- 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
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- caddicefly — caddisfly.
- caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candyfloss — Candyfloss is a large pink or white mass of sugar threads that is eaten from a stick. It is sold at fairs or other outdoor events.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- chalcidfly — any of numerous small flies of the family Chalcididae, often having bright metallic coloration, the larvae of which are chiefly parasitic on various stages of other insects.
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- chiffonade — finely shredded leaf vegetables used as a base for a dish or as a garnish
- classified — Classified information or documents are officially secret.
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- coal field — an area containing significant coal deposits.
- coalfields — Plural form of coalfield.
- coffee and — coffee and a snack.
- coffee-and — coffee and a snack.
- cofferdams — Plural form of cofferdam.
- cold frame — A cold frame is a wooden frame with a glass top in which you grow small plants to protect them from cold weather.
- confederal — being or of a confederation of independent nations or states
- confidable — Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information.
- confidante — Someone's confidante is a woman who they are able to discuss their private problems with.
- confidants — a close friend or associate to whom secrets are confided or with whom private matters and problems are discussed.
- confirmand — a candidate for confirmation
- crawfished — Simple past tense and past participle of crawfish.
- cross-fade — to fade in (one sound or picture source) as another is being faded out
- crossfader — (music) A device consisting of two volume controls which control separate records, allowing the DJ to change the source of the sound between the records.
- daffadilly — daffodil.
- daffodilly — a daffodil
- daily life — Your daily life is the things that you do every day as part of your normal life.
- dairy farm — a farm which has cows producing milk, rather than for beef
- damp-proof — to protect against the incursion of damp by adding a dampcourse or by coating with a moisture-resistant preparation
- damselfish — any small tropical percoid fish of the family Pomacentridae, having a brightly coloured deep compressed body
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- dandifying — Present participle of dandify.
- dark-field — of or relating to the illumination of an object by which it is seen, through a microscope, as bright against a dark background.