10-letter words containing f, s
- artfulness — slyly crafty or cunning; deceitful; tricky: artful schemes.
- artificers — Plural form of artificer.
- as follows — You use as follows in writing or speech to introduce something such as a list, description, or explanation.
- asafoetida — a bitter resin with an unpleasant onion-like smell, obtained from the roots of some umbelliferous plants of the genus Ferula: formerly used as a carminative, antispasmodic, and expectorant
- ascii file — a file that uses the ASCII code
- aside from — Aside from means the same as apart from. This form is more usual in American English.
- ask for it — to put a question to; inquire of: I asked him but he didn't answer.
- assafetida — asafetida
- auriferous — (of rock) containing gold; gold-bearing
- 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
- autografts — Plural form of autograft.
- back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back shift — a group of workers who work a shift from late afternoon to midnight in an industry or occupation where a day shift or a night shift is also worked
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- balsam fir — a fir tree, Abies balsamea, of NE North America, that yields Canada balsam
- banffshire — (until 1975) a county of NE Scotland: formerly (1975–96) part of Grampian region, now part of Aberdeenshire
- barrelfish — a blackish stromateid fish, Hyperoglyphe perciformis, inhabiting New England coastal waters.
- barrelfuls — Plural form of barrelful.
- bas-relief — Bas-relief is a technique of sculpture in which shapes are carved so that they stand out from the background.
- bass flute — the lowest instrument in the flute family, pitched one octave below the concert flute
- bass staff — a staff marked with a bass clef.
- bast fiber — bast (def 2).
- bast-fiber — Botany. phloem.
- be friends — to be friendly (with)
- be oneself — to function physically and mentally as one normally does
- be soft on — to treat gently
- bean feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- bean-feast — (formerly) an annual dinner or party given by an employer for employees.
- beanfeasts — Plural form of beanfeast.
- beautifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beautify.
- beautifuls — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
- because of — If an event or situation occurs because of something, that thing is the reason or cause.
- bedfellows — Plural form of bedfellow.
- beefeaters — Plural form of beefeater.
- beefmaster — one of a breed of fast-growing beef cattle of the western U.S., tolerant of humidity, heat, and insects, developed by crossbreeding Brahman, Hereford, and Shorthorn stock.
- beliefless — having no faith or belief
- benefiters — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- bernstorff — Count Johann-Heinrich [yoh-hahn-hahyn-rikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑnˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, German diplomat.
- blissfully — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
- bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- 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.