10-letter words containing f, a, n
- anne frank — Anne, 1929–45, German Jewish girl who died in Belsen concentration camp in Germany: her diaries about her family hiding from Nazis in Amsterdam (1942–44) published in 1947.
- anseriform — (ornithology) Of or pertaining to birds of the family Anseriformes including ducks, geese, swans, and screamers.
- answer for — If you have to answer for something bad or wrong you have done, you are punished for it.
- antennifer — a pivotal projection at the rim of an antennal socket.
- anti-draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- antifamily — opposed to the family unit
- antifebrin — acetanilide.
- antifemale — opposed to or discriminating against women
- antifogger — an antifoggant.
- antifouled — Simple past tense and past participle of antifoul.
- antifreeze — Antifreeze is a liquid which is added to water to stop it freezing. It is used in car radiators in cold weather.
- antifungal — inhibiting the growth of fungi
- antireform — opposed to reform
- archfiends — Plural form of archfiend.
- arefaction — the act of drying, or a dried condition
- artfulness — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- atef-crown — a symbolic headdress of certain Egyptian gods, as Osiris, and of Egyptian kings, consisting of a tall conical cap flanked by two plumes and bearing representations of the uraeus and the sun.
- aufklarung — the Enlightenment, esp in Germany
- ausforming — a treatment to strengthen hard steels, prior to quenching, in which the specimen is plastically deformed while it is in the austenite temperature range
- awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- bank draft — A bank draft is a cheque which you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal cheque.
- 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.
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- bean feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- bean-feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- beanfeasts — Plural form of beanfeast.
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- 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
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- 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?"
- 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.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- 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.
- caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
- caffeinate — To add caffeine.