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10-letter words containing f, a, i

  • back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
  • backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
  • backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
  • backoffice — (software)   A suite of network server software from Microsoft that includes Windows NT Server, BackOffice Server (for the integrated development, deployment, and management of BackOffice applications in departments, branch offices, and medium sized businesses); Exchange Server; Proxy Server; Site Server for intranet publishing, management, and search; Site Server Commerce Edition For comprehensive Internet commerce transactions; Small Business Server for business operations, resource management, and customer relations; SNA Server for the integration of existing and new systems and data; SQL Server for scalable, reliable database and data-warehousing; Systems Management Server (SMS) for centralised change- and configuration-management.
  • baculiform — shaped like a rod
  • baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
  • bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
  • balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
  • banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
  • barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
  • bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
  • bast fiber — bast (def 2).
  • bast-fiber — Botany. phloem.
  • batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
  • batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
  • 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.
  • beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
  • 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.
  • blanc fixe — barium sulfate
  • 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.
  • 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?"
  • 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
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
  • 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
  • cafeterias — Plural form of cafeteria.
  • cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
  • caffeinate — To add caffeine.
  • caffeinism — caffeism
  • calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
  • calciferol — a fat-soluble steroid, found esp in fish-liver oils, produced by the action of ultraviolet radiation on ergosterol. It increases the absorption of calcium from the intestine and is used in the treatment of rickets. Formula: C28H43OH
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)
  • calorifier — a water tank fitted with a coil, or coils, that can be heated in order to heat the water
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