10-letter words containing f
- better-off — being in better circumstances, especially economically: Only the better-off nations can afford to send probes into space.
- bibliofilm — a microfilm used especially in libraries to photograph the pages of valuable or much-used books.
- bifacially — from a bifacial point of view
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bigfooting — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- billfolder — billfold.
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biofuelled — running on biofuel
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- black flag — a flag that is all or mostly black, esp. such a flag flown by a pirate ship
- black flux — a reducing flux consisting of finely divided carbon and potassium carbonate.
- black ruff — a large, blackish, pelagic fish, Centrolophus niger, of the Atlantic Ocean, chiefly along the coast of Europe.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blissfully — full of, abounding in, enjoying, or conferring bliss.
- blockflote — a recorder.
- blood feud — A blood feud is a long-lasting, bitter disagreement between two or more groups of people, particularly family groups. Blood feuds often involve members of each group murdering or fighting with members of the other.
- blood flow — the flow of blood through blood vessels around the body
- bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
- 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.
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
- body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
- body forth — to give shape or form to
- 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
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bone felon — felon2 .
- bonhoeffer — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1906–45, German Lutheran theologian: executed by the Nazis
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- 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).
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
- box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
- brain fart — (jargon, humour) 1. The actual result of a braino, as opposed to the mental glitch that is the braino itself. E.g. typing "dir" on a Unix box after a session with MS-DOS. 2. A biproduct of a bloated mind producing information effortlessly. A burst of useful information. "I know you're busy on the Microsoft story, but can you give us a brain fart on the Mitnik bust?"
- brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
- brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- 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.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread