10-letter words containing f, a, r
- aufklarung — the Enlightenment, esp in Germany
- auriferous — (of rock) containing gold; gold-bearing
- 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
- autoformat — Lb transitive To cause the layout of (a document) to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.
- autografts — Plural form of autograft.
- back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
- 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
- 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.
- bare-faced — You use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- barefooter — One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
- barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
- barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
- 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.
- batter-fry — to coat with batter and fry in deep fat.
- be all for — to be strongly in favour of
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beamformer — The device used to accomplish beamforming.
- bear fruit — plant: produce fruit
- beautifier — A person who or a thing which beautifies or makes beautiful.
- beefeaters — Plural form of beefeater.
- beefmaster — one of a breed of fast-growing beef cattle of the western U.S., tolerant of humidity, heat, and insects, developed by crossbreeding Brahman, Hereford, and Shorthorn stock.
- before-tax — before tax has been deducted; gross
- 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.
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- beta fiber — a nonflammable glass fiber made into fabrics, insulation, etc.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- black ruff — a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- 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?"
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- 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.