10-letter words containing f, a
- infraclass — A taxonomic category that ranks below a subclass.
- infraction — breach; violation; infringement: an infraction of the rules.
- infragrant — not fragrant; bad-smelling
- infrahuman — less than human; subhuman.
- infraorder — A taxonomic category that ranks below a suborder.
- infraposed — placed beneath
- infrarenal — Located below the kidney.
- infrasonic — noting or pertaining to a sound wave with a frequency below the audio-frequency range.
- infrasound — sound with frequencies below the audible range.
- infuriated — to make furious; enrage.
- infuriates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of infuriate.
- infusorial — pertaining to, containing, or consisting of infusorians: infusorial earth.
- infusorian — any of the Infusoria.
- ingrafting — Present participle of ingraft.
- ingrateful — Ungrateful; not grateful.
- insofar as — to such an extent (usually followed by as): I will do the work insofar as I am able.
- instead of — as a substitute or replacement; in the place or stead of someone or something: We ordered tea but were served coffee instead.
- insufflate — to blow or breathe (something) in.
- interfaced — Simple past tense and past participle of interface.
- interfaces — Plural form of interface.
- interfaith — of, operating, or occurring between persons belonging to different religions: an interfaith service.
- interframe — (signal processing) A video frame which is compressed to express only the change from a reference frame.
- intergraft — (of two plants or parts of a plant) to unite by grafting
- intrafaith — Taking place within or relevant to a single faith community.
- intraframe — (signal processing) A video frame which does not depend on any other frame for rendering, but simply presents fixed image. Usually subject to spatial compression.
- ipso facto — by the fact itself; by the very nature of the deed: to be condemned ipso facto.
- isoflavone — a phytoestrogen produced chiefly by plants of the legume family, especially soybeans, potentially useful in lowering cholesterol and in treating some cancers and menopausal symptoms.
- isoflurane — a volatile, halogenated ether, C 3 H 2 ClF 5 O, used as a general anesthetic in surgery.
- j-bar lift — a ski lift having a J -shaped bar against which a skier leans in an upright position while being pulled up the slope.
- jack frost — frost or freezing cold personified.
- jack staff — a flagstaff at the bow of a vessel, on which a jack is flown.
- jack-knife — a large pocketknife.
- jackknifed — Simple past tense and past participle of jackknife.
- jackknifes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of jackknife.
- jackshafts — Plural form of jackshaft.
- jail fever — a former name for typhus, once a common disease in jails
- java finch — a finchlike weaverbird, Padda oryzivora, of southeastern Asia, having gray plumage tinged with pink on the belly, often kept as a cage bird.
- jef raskin — (person) The person who started the Macintosh project at Apple Computer, Inc. but left the company before the product was launched.
- kaempferol — (organic compound) A flavonoid, isolated from tea and other plants, that may reduce the risk of heart disease.
- kaffrarian — a region in the S Republic of South Africa: inhabited mostly by the Xhosa.
- kafiristan — former name of Nuristan.
- kafkaesque — of, pertaining to, characteristic of, or resembling the literary work of Franz Kafka: the Kafkaesque terror of the endless interrogations.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- kefallinia — Cephalonia
- kefalotiri — Alternative form of kefalotyri.
- kefalotyri — A Greek cheese similar to parmesan.
- kissy-face — affectionate kissing; necking: playing kissy-face.
- klagenfurt — a province in S Austria. 3681 sq. mi. (9535 sq. km). Capital: Klagenfurt.
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- koobi fora — an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominid fossils and some of the oldest hominid areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from one to two million years ago.