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13-letter words containing f, a, n

  • antiinfection — Preventing or counteracting infection.
  • antiinfective — Antiinfection.
  • antireflexive — noting a relation in which no element is in relation to itself, as “less than.”.
  • antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
  • antisudorific — an antiperspirant.
  • any number of — several or many
  • anywhere from — any quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit
  • aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
  • argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
  • aridification — the process by which a humid region becomes increasingly dry, as by climatic change or human interference with the ecology.
  • aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
  • at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
  • at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
  • autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
  • aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
  • back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
  • back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • bafana bafana — the official name for the South African national soccer team
  • baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
  • balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
  • balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
  • balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • banana family — the plant family Musaceae, characterized by large treelike herbaceous plants of tropical regions, having a trunk formed by spiraling leaf sheaths, and bearing large leaves, flower clusters above leathery red-to-purple bracts, and fleshy fruit in clusters, including the banana and plantain.
  • bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
  • bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beautifulness — 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.
  • bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
  • beneficential — relating to beneficence
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
  • beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • binary prefix — (unit)   (Or "IEC prefix") A prefix used with a unit of data to mean multiplication by a power of 1024. Binary prefixes are most often used with "byte" (e.g. "kilobyte") but also with bit (e.g. "megabit"). For example, the term kilobyte has historically been used to mean 1024 bytes, and megabyte to mean 1,048,576 bytes. The multipliers 1024 and 1,048,576 are powers of 1024, which is itself a power of two (1024 = 2^10). It is this factor of two that gives the name "binary prefix". This is in contrast to a decimal prefix denoting a power of 1000, which is itself a power of ten (1000 = 10^3). Decimal prefixes are used in science and engineering and are specified in widely adopted SI standards. Note that the actual prefix - kilo or mega - is the same, it is the interpretation that differs. The difference between the two interpretations increases with each multiplication, so while 1000 and 1024 differ by only 2.4%, 1000^6 and 1024^6 differ by 15%. The 1024-based interpretation of prefixes is often still used informally and especially when discussing the storage capacity of random-access memory. This has lead to storage device manufacturers being accused of false marketing for using the decimal interpretation where customers might assume the larger, historical, binary interpretation. In an attempt to clarify the distinction, in 1998 the IEC specified that kilobyte, megabyte, etc. should only be used for powers of 1000 (following SI). They specified new prefixes for powers of 1024 containing "bi" for "binary": kibibyte, mebibyte, etc.; an idea originally propsed by IUPAC. IEC also specified new abbreviations Ki, Mi, etc. for the new prefixes. Many other standards bodies such as NIST, IEEE and BIPM support this proposal but as of 2013 its use is rare in non-technical circles. Specific units of IEC 60027-2 A.2 and ISO/IEC 80000
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
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