9-letter words containing f, a, r
- artifical — Misspelling of artificial.
- artificer — a skilled craftsman
- artifices — Plural form of artifice.
- as far as — to the degree or extent that
- ask after — If someone asks after you, they ask someone how you are.
- astrofell — (in the works of Spenser) an unidentified plant, commonly believed to be akin to an aster
- astroturf — Astroturf is a type of artificial fiber that is used instead of grass on some sports fields.
- atm forum — (networking, body) An international non-profit arganisation aiming to encourage the user of Asynchronous Transfer Mode through interoperability specifications and to promote cooperation and awareness. The ATM Forum consists of a worldwide Technical Committee, three Marketing Committees for North America, Europe and Asia-Pacific as well as the User Committee, through which ATM end-users participate. Worldwide Headquarters: 2570 West El Camino Real, Suite 304 Mountain View, CA 94040-1313 USA. Telephone: +1 (650) 949 6700. E-mail: ATM Forum <[email protected]>.
- auranofin — a gold-containing compound, C 20 H 34 AuO 9 PS, used orally in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
- autoflare — a computer-operated, automatic landing system in an aircraft
- autograft — a tissue graft obtained from one part of a patient's body for use on another part
- avid fart — a flashy and intrusive visual effects editing style
- baby farm — a place that houses and takes care of babies for a fee.
- babyproof — made safe for babies to come into contact with
- bacciform — shaped like a berry
- back four — the defensive players in many modern team formations: usually two fullbacks and two centre backs
- backdraft — an explosive surge in a fire produced by the sudden mixing of air with other combustible gases.
- backfired — Simple past tense and past participle of backfire.
- backfires — Plural form of backfire.
- ball fern — a feathery fern, Davallia trichomanoides, of Malaysia, having rhizomes covered with toothed scales.
- barefaced — You use barefaced to describe someone's behavior when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
- barfulous — /bar'fyoo-l*s/ (Or "barfucious", /bar-fyoo-sh*s/) Said of something that would make anyone barf, if only for aesthetic reasons.
- barrelful — as much or as many as a barrel will hold
- barrowful — The amount that can fit in a barrow.
- base form — the simplest form of a word, to which inflections may be added
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- baud barf — (jargon) /bawd barf/ The garbage one gets on the display screen when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (especially line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection. Baud barf is not completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify particular speeds.
- beakerful — the amount of liquid a beaker will hold
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beefeater — Beefeaters are guards at the Tower of London. They wear a uniform made in the style of the sixteenth century.
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breathful — full of breath; living
- briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control