9-letter words containing i, a, f
- backlifts — Plural form of backlift.
- backshift — The changing of a present tense in direct speech to a past tense in reported speech (or a past tense to pluperfect).
- bad faith — intention to deceive; treachery or dishonesty (esp in the phrase in bad faith)
- basifixed — (of an anther) attached to the filament by its base
- basrelief — Alternative form of bas-relief.
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beatified — to make blissfully happy.
- beatifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beatify.
- beautiful — A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
- beccafico — any of various European songbirds, esp warblers of the genus Sylvia, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- cactiform — resembling a cactus
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- cafe noir — black coffee
- cafeteria — A cafeteria is a restaurant where you choose your food from a counter and take it to your table after paying for it. Cafeterias are usually found in public buildings such as hospitals and stores.
- cafetiere — A cafetière is a type of coffee pot that has a disk with small holes in it attached to the lid. You push the lid down to separate the liquid from the ground coffee when it is ready to drink.
- caffeinic — related to or containing caffeine
- calcified — Body tissue that is calcified has become hard because of the presence of substances called calcium salts.
- calcifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of calcify.
- calciform — Having the form of calx, chalk or lime.
- calcifuge — any plant that thrives in acid soils but not in lime-rich soils
- calfskins — Plural form of calfskin.
- calorific — The calorific value of something, or its calorific content, is the number of calories it contains.
- cambiform — resembling a cambium
- campfires — Plural form of campfire.
- canefield — A field where cane is grown.
- canefruit — a fruit, such as the raspberry, which grows on woody-stemmed plants
- caprifigs — Plural form of caprifig.
- caprifole — honeysuckle
- capriform — resembling a goat
- car thief — a person who steals automobiles