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10-letter words containing f, u

  • bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
  • bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
  • bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
  • breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
  • breadstuff — any form of bread
  • 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.
  • brush fire — a fire in brushwood
  • brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
  • buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
  • budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
  • buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
  • buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
  • bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
  • buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
  • buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
  • buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
  • buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
  • bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
  • bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
  • bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
  • bully beef — tinned corned beef
  • bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bumfreezer — any of various similar styles of short jacket worn by men
  • bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
  • burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
  • butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
  • butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
  • by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
  • cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
  • camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
  • candytufts — Plural form of candytuft.
  • catafalque — a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral
  • caudal fin — the tail fin of fishes and some other aquatic vertebrates, used for propulsion during locomotion
  • cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
  • cefuroxime — (pharmaceutical drug) A second-generation cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • centrifuge — A centrifuge is a machine that spins mixtures of different substances around very quickly so that they separate by centrifugal force.
  • ceriferous — producing or bearing wax
  • chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
  • chauffeurs — Plural form of chauffeur.
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