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9-letter words containing f, n

  • asian flu — a type of influenza recurring in worldwide epidemics, caused by a virus (A2 strain or subsequent antigenic variants), which apparently originated in China in 1957
  • auranofin — a gold-containing compound, C 20 H 34 AuO 9 PS, used orally in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis.
  • avengeful — vengeful, full of vengeance
  • avian flu — Avian flu is a serious illness that can be transmitted to people from chickens, ducks, and other birds.
  • avifaunal — Of or pertaining to avifauna.
  • avifaunas — Plural form of avifauna.
  • awfulness — The quality of striking with awe, or with reverence; dreadfulness; solemnity; as, the awfulness of this sacred place.
  • bacon fat — fat made by rendering bacon
  • ball fern — a feathery fern, Davallia trichomanoides, of Malaysia, having rhizomes covered with toothed scales.
  • banefully — In a baneful way.
  • be in for — If you say that someone is in for a shock or a surprise, you mean that they are going to experience it.
  • beanfeast — A beanfeast is a party or other social event.
  • beefiness — The characteristic of being beefy.
  • befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
  • befitting — proper or right; suitable
  • befortune — to happen, befall, come about
  • belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
  • benefited — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • benefiter — a person who derives benefit
  • beni suef — city in NE Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 152,000
  • beni-suef — a city in NW Egypt on the Nile River.
  • blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
  • blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
  • blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
  • bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
  • bonne foi — sincerity.
  • bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
  • born-free — (in South Africa) a person who was born or grew up after the end of the Apartheid era
  • bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • bow front — swell front.
  • bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
  • boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
  • 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)
  • bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
  • 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
  • buffering — temporary storage of data
  • buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
  • bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
  • bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
  • cafe noir — black coffee
  • caffeinic — related to or containing caffeine
  • calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
  • candytuft — either of two species of Iberis grown as annual garden plants for their umbels ("tufts") of white, red, or purplish flowers
  • canefield — A field where cane is grown.
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