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10-letter words containing f

  • 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
  • atef-crown — a symbolic headdress of certain Egyptian gods, as Osiris, and of Egyptian kings, consisting of a tall conical cap flanked by two plumes and bearing representations of the uraeus and the sun.
  • aufklarung — the Enlightenment, esp in Germany
  • 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
  • auto de fe — auto-da-fé
  • auto-da-fe — a ceremony of the Spanish Inquisition including the pronouncement and execution of sentences passed on sinners or heretics
  • autoformat — Lb transitive To cause the layout of (a document) to be created or edited without further effort by the execution of a program.
  • autografts — Plural form of autograft.
  • awfulizing — Present participle of awfulize.
  • axial flow — the flow of air parallel to the longitudinal axis of the engine of a jet aircraft
  • axial-flow — having a fluid flow parallel to an axis of rotation, as in a turbine.
  • baby-faced — having a smooth round face like a baby's
  • back float — a floating position on one's back with arms extended out to the sides and face upward.
  • back focus — the distance between the back surface of a lens and the focal plane when the lens is focused at infinity.
  • back forty — remote, usually uncultivated acreage on a large piece of land, as on a farm or ranch.
  • 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.
  • backfilled — Simple past tense and past participle of backfill.
  • backfiring — Present participle of backfire.
  • backoffice — (software)   A suite of network server software from Microsoft that includes Windows NT Server, BackOffice Server (for the integrated development, deployment, and management of BackOffice applications in departments, branch offices, and medium sized businesses); Exchange Server; Proxy Server; Site Server for intranet publishing, management, and search; Site Server Commerce Edition For comprehensive Internet commerce transactions; Small Business Server for business operations, resource management, and customer relations; SNA Server for the integration of existing and new systems and data; SQL Server for scalable, reliable database and data-warehousing; Systems Management Server (SMS) for centralised change- and configuration-management.
  • baculiform — shaped like a rod
  • baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
  • bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
  • bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
  • bald-faced — barefaced (def 2).
  • ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
  • 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
  • bank draft — A bank draft is a cheque which you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal cheque.
  • bare-faced — You use bare-faced to describe someone's behaviour when you want to emphasize that they do not care that they are behaving wrongly.
  • barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
  • barefooter — One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
  • 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.
  • batch file — a computer file with sequential commands to be executed when the file is read
  • 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.
  • batter-fry — to coat with batter and fry in deep fat.
  • be all for — to be strongly in favour of
  • be friends — to be friendly (with)
  • be no fool — to be shrewd and capable
  • be of help — If someone or something is of help, they make a situation easier or better.
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