10-letter words containing f, r, a, n
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- 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.
- caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
- 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
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- cant frame — any of several frames bracketed aft of the transom of a ship and inclined slightly to the fore-and-aft direction.
- carnifying — Present participle of carnify.
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.
- chain fern — any of several ferns of the genus Woodwardia, having a chainlike row of sori on either side of the midrib of each fertile leaflet.
- chamfering — Present participle of chamfer.
- chromaffin — showing a brown colour when in the presence of chromic acid
- clarifying — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- confabular — of or relating to confabulation
- confederal — being or of a confederation of independent nations or states
- conferable — Alternative spelling of conferrable.
- confirmand — a candidate for confirmation
- conformant — In accordance with a set of specifications.
- confrontal — a confrontation
- contraflow — A contraflow is a situation in which vehicles travelling on a main road in one direction have to use lanes that are normally used by traffic travelling in the opposite direction, because the road is being repaired.
- coral fern — a scrambling fern of the genus Gleichenia, having repeatedly forked fronds
- cornflakes — a breakfast cereal made from toasted maize, eaten with milk, sugar, etc
- cotransfer — a simultaneous transfer of multiple genes
- craftiness — skillful in underhand or evil schemes; cunning; deceitful; sly.
- crankshaft — A crankshaft is the main shaft of an internal combustion engine.
- dance form — the binary form used in most of the movements of the 18th-century suite.
- dancefloor — Alternative form of dance floor.
- deafferent — Detached from the nervous system.
- deforciant — a person who wrongfully withholds something from someone by force
- defragging — Present participle of defrag.
- defragment — to reorganize files on (a disk) so that the parts of each file are stored in contiguous sectors on the disk, thereby improving computer performance and maximizing disk space.
- defrauding — Present participle of defraud.
- defrayment — payment of some or all charges or expenses.
- den father — (in the Boy Scouts) a man who serves as an adult leader or supervisor of a cub scout den.
- dorsal fin — the fin or finlike integumentary expansion generally developed on the back of aquatic vertebrates.
- downdrafts — Plural form of downdraft.
- draftiness — The characteristic of being drafty.
- dragonfish — any marine fish of the family Bathydraconidae, of Antarctic seas, having an elongated body and flattened head and being biochemically adapted to extremely low temperatures.
- drainfield — an open area, the soil of which absorbs the contents of a septic tank.
- ear fungus — a smooth, reddish-brown ear-shaped fungus, Otidia smithii, abundant in North America.
- effraction — a breaking into a house, store, etc., by force; forcible entry.
- enfleurage — The extraction of essential oils and perfumes from flowers using odorless animal or vegetable fats.
- enforcable — Misspelling of enforceable.
- engrafting — Present participle of engraft.
- fabricking — the action of building or constructing
- facinorous — extremely wicked
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.