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9-letter words containing f, a

  • ball fern — a feathery fern, Davallia trichomanoides, of Malaysia, having rhizomes covered with toothed scales.
  • ball foot — a ball-like turned foot, used especially in the 16th and 17th centuries.
  • banefully — In a baneful way.
  • 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
  • bashfully — In a bashful manner.
  • basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
  • basketful — a sufficient quantity to fill a basket; the amount contained in a basket.
  • basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
  • bass clef — the clef that establishes F a fifth below middle C on the fourth line of the staff
  • 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.
  • beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
  • beakerful — the amount of liquid a beaker will hold
  • beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
  • beanfeast — A beanfeast is a party or other social event.
  • 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.
  • beatified — to make blissfully happy.
  • beatifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beatify.
  • beautiful — A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
  • beautyful — Misspelling of beautiful.
  • beccafico — any of various European songbirds, esp warblers of the genus Sylvia, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries
  • beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
  • beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
  • beefeater — Beefeaters are guards at the Tower of London. They wear a uniform made in the style of the sixteenth century.
  • beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
  • befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
  • belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
  • bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
  • bifocaled — wearing bifocals
  • bifoliate — having only two leaves
  • bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
  • biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
  • bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
  • bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
  • bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
  • black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
  • black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
  • black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
  • blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
  • blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
  • blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
  • bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
  • bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
  • bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
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