10-letter words containing n, a, f, i
- flavorings — Plural form of flavoring.
- flavouring — taste, especially the distinctive taste of something as it is experienced in the mouth.
- flindersia — a genus of tree native to Australasia, containing fourteen species
- flippantly — frivolously disrespectful, shallow, or lacking in seriousness; characterized by levity: The audience was shocked by his flippant remarks about patriotism.
- flirtation — the act or practice of flirting; coquetry.
- floatation — an act or state of floating.
- floatingly — In a floating manner.
- floodplain — a nearly flat plain along the course of a stream or river that is naturally subject to flooding.
- floriation — Ornamentation by means of flower forms, either realistic or stylized.
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- flotations — Plural form of flotation.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- fluxuating — Misspelling of fluctuating.
- focalizing — Present participle of focalize.
- fog signal — any of various types of signal used as a warning by vessels navigating in fog or mist.
- foilswoman — a woman who uses or specializes in using a foil
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms
- food grain — any cereal grain produced for human consumption.
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.
- foraminate — full of holes or foramina.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forearming — Present participle of forearm.
- foredating — Present participle of foredate.
- foreordain — to ordain or appoint beforehand.
- forfaiting — the financial service of discounting, without recourse, a promissory note, bill of exchange, letter of credit, etc, received from an overseas buyer by an exporter; a form of debt discounting
- forinsecal — foreign
- formations — Plural form of formation.
- formatting — the shape and size of a book as determined by the number of times the original sheet has been folded to form the leaves. Compare duodecimo, folio (def 2), octavo, quarto.
- fornicated — Simple past tense and past participle of fornicate.
- fornicates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fornicate.
- fornicator — to commit fornication.
- fortepiano — a piano of the late 18th and early 19th centuries with greater clarity but less volume, resonance, and dynamic range than a modern grand, revived in the late 20th century for the performance of the music of its period.
- fortran ii — 1958. Added subroutines.
- fortran iv — IBM 1962. For the IBM 7090/94. Many implementations went well beyond the original definition.
- fortran vi — IBM's internal name for early PL/I work ca. 1963.
- fortransit — (language) Fortran Internal Translator. A subset of Fortran translated into IT on the IBM 650. It was in use in the late 1950s and early 1960s. Compilation took place in several steps (using punched cards as the only input/output media). FORTRANSIT was converted to IT Internal Translator which was converted into SOAP and thence to machine code. In the SOAP -> machine code step, the user had to include card decks for all the subroutines used in his FORTRANSIT program (including e.g. square root, sine, and even basic floating point routines).
- forwarding — Sports. a player stationed in advance of others on a team. Football. a lineman. Basketball. either of two players stationed in the forecourt.
- foundation — the basis or groundwork of anything: the moral foundation of both society and religion.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- fractional — pertaining to fractions; comprising a part or the parts of a unit; constituting a fraction: fractional numbers.
- fractioned — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- fracturing — Present participle of fracture.
- frame line — a horizontal line separating consecutive frames on a strip of film.
- framingham — a town in E Massachusetts.
- franchisal — Pertaining to franchises.
- franchised — Simple past tense and past participle of franchise.
- franchisee — a person or company to whom a franchise is granted.
- franchiser — Also, franchisor [fran-chahy-zer, fran-chuh-zawr] /ˈfræn tʃaɪ zər, ˌfræn tʃəˈzɔr/ (Show IPA). a person or company that grants a franchise.