10-letter words containing f, a, s
- artfulness — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- artificers — Plural form of artificer.
- as follows — You use as follows in writing or speech to introduce something such as a list, description, or explanation.
- asafoetida — a bitter resin with an unpleasant onion-like smell, obtained from the roots of some umbelliferous plants of the genus Ferula: formerly used as a carminative, antispasmodic, and expectorant
- ascii file — a file that uses the ASCII code
- aside from — Aside from means the same as apart from. This form is more usual in American English.
- ask for it — to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
- assafetida — asafetida
- 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
- autografts — Plural form of autograft.
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- 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
- 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.
- bass flute — the lowest instrument in the flute family, pitched one octave below the concert flute
- bass staff — a staff marked with a bass clef.
- bast fiber — bast (def 2).
- bast-fiber — Botany. phloem.
- 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.
- beautifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beautify.
- beautifuls — 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.
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- 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.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- 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.
- buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
- cafeterias — Plural form of cafeteria.
- caffeinism — caffeism
- calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- candyfloss — Candyfloss is a large pink or white mass of sugar threads that is eaten from a stick. It is sold at fairs or other outdoor events.
- candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland