10-letter words containing f, i, n
- antireform — opposed to reform
- archfiends — Plural form of archfiend.
- arefaction — the act of drying, or a dried condition
- 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
- awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
- backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
- baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- batfowling — A method of catching birds at night, by holding a torch or other light, and beating the bush or perch where they roost so that the birds fly towards the light.
- be friends — to be friendly (with)
- beatifying — Present participle of beatify.
- befriended — to make friends or become friendly with; act as a friend to; help; aid: to befriend the poor and the weak.
- befriender — a person who befriends
- befuddling — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- beneficent — A beneficent person or thing helps people or results in something good.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- beneficing — a position or post granted to an ecclesiastic that guarantees a fixed amount of property or income.
- benefiters — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benefiting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benefitted — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benefitter — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- bigfooting — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- brain fart — (jargon, humour) 1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- 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.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- by dint of — If you achieve a result by dint of something, you achieve it by means of that thing.
- caffeinate — To add caffeine.
- caffeinism — caffeism
- 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)
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
- canefields — Plural form of canefield.
- carnifying — Present participle of carnify.
- case knife — sheath knife
- catfishing — Present participle of catfish.
- caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
- cefmatilen — An orally active cephalosporin antibiotic.
- centerfire — designating a cartridge with the primer set in the center of the base