10-letter words containing f, a, n, i
- notifiable — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- oafishness — The state of being oafish.
- of fashion — of high social standing
- off-island — located or tending away from the shore of an island: an off-island current.
- offloading — Present participle of offload.
- on pain of — physical suffering or distress, as due to injury, illness, etc.
- palfrenier — a person whose duty is to tend to horses
- paperknife — a small, often decorative, knifelike instrument with a blade of metal, ivory, wood, or the like, for slitting open envelopes, the leaves of books, folded papers, etc.
- paraffinic — of, noting, or characteristic of paraffin wax or a paraffin hydrocarbon.
- pathfinder — a historical novel (1840) by James Fenimore Cooper.
- patient of — capable of bearing (fatigue, thirst, etc.)
- pianoforte — a piano.
- pinfeather — an undeveloped feather before the web portions have expanded.
- pinnatifid — (of a leaf) pinnately cleft, with clefts reaching halfway or more to the midrib.
- piscifauna — all the fishes that live in a particular place, time or habitat
- plainfield — a city in N New Jersey.
- plant life — vegetation, flora
- pontifical — of, relating to, or characteristic of a pontiff; papal.
- poriferans — an animal phylum comprising the sponges.
- prefinance — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- qualifying — Present participle of qualify.
- quantified — Measured.
- quantifier — Logic. an expression, as “all” or “some,” that indicates the quantity of a proposition. Compare existential quantifier, universal quantifier.
- quantifies — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- rafinesque — Constantine Samuel, 1783–1840, U.S. naturalist, born in Turkey.
- rafsanjani — Hojatolislam Ali Akbar Hashemi, born 1935, president of Iran 1989–97.
- ragamuffin — a ragged, disreputable person; tatterdemalion.
- rail fence — a fence made of rails resting on crossed stakes or across one another at an angle.
- rained off — cancelled or postponed on account of rain
- rainforest — a tropical forest, usually of tall, densely growing, broad-leaved evergreen trees in an area of high annual rainfall.
- refracting — undergoing or causing refraction
- refraction — Physics. the change of direction of a ray of light, sound, heat, or the like, in passing obliquely from one medium into another in which its wave velocity is different.
- refraining — to abstain from an impulse to say or do something (often followed by from): I refrained from telling him what I thought.
- refutation — an act of refuting a statement, charge, etc.; disproof.
- remanifest — readily perceived by the eye or the understanding; evident; obvious; apparent; plain: a manifest error.
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rifampicin — a drug used in the treatment of tuberculosis, meningitis, and leprosy
- ring false — to give the impression of being false
- ring flash — a type of electronic flash in which the light source is arranged in a ring around the lens in order to produce a light without shadows
- ruffianish — like a ruffian
- ruffianism — conduct befitting a ruffian.
- rumfustian — a type of spiced nightcap made with beer
- safety pin — pin with covered point
- safety-pin — to secure or affix with a safety pin: to safety-pin a child's mittens to his coat sleeve.
- sainte foy — a SW suburb of Quebec, on the St Lawrence River. Pop: 72 547 (2001)
- san felipe — a city in NE Venezuela, on the Orinoco River.
- sanctified — made holy; consecrated: sanctified wine.
- sanctifier — to make holy; set apart as sacred; consecrate.
- sanforized — (of a fabric) preshrunk using a patented process
- sang-froid — coolness of mind; calmness; composure: They committed the robbery with complete sang-froid.