10-letter words containing f, a, r
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
- cafe creme — coffee with cream.
- 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
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- 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
- calefactor — a heater
- 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)
- call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
- calorifier — a water tank fitted with a coil, or coils, that can be heated in order to heat the water
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- carnifying — Present participle of carnify.
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- cash offer — a public equity issue sold to everyone who is interested in it
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- catch fire — to ignite
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- cease-fire — a temporary cessation of warfare by mutual agreement of the participants; truce
- ceasefires — Plural form of ceasefire.
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
- chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
- chair lift — A chair lift is a line of chairs that hang from a moving cable and carry people up and down a mountain or ski slope.
- chairlifts — Plural form of chairlift.
- chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
- charge off — to treat or regard as a loss
- charge-off — a write-off, especially of a bad loan by a bank.
- chargeoffs — Plural form of chargeoff.
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- chauffeurs — Plural form of chauffeur.
- chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
- chromaffin — showing a brown colour when in the presence of chromic acid
- claim form — an application form for claiming financial compensation
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- classifier — a person or thing that classifies.
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- clear-fell — to cut down all of the trees in (a wood, part of a wood, or throughout an area of land)
- clearfield — a town in N Utah.
- clip frame — a picture frame that is held together by clips attaching the glass to the backing
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease