10-letter words containing n, f
- floribunda — any of a class of roses characterized by a long blooming period and the production of large flowers often in thick clusters.
- floridness — The quality of being florid.
- florigenic — of or relating to the plant hormone florigen
- florissant — a city in E Missouri, near St. Louis.
- flotations — Plural form of flotation.
- floundered — to struggle with stumbling or plunging movements (usually followed by about, along, on, through, etc.): He saw the child floundering about in the water.
- flounderer — One who flounders, who behaves clumsily without direction.
- fluentness — The quality of being fluent.
- fluffiness — of, resembling, or covered with fluff.
- flugelhorn — a brass wind instrument with three valves, usually pitched in B flat and used especially in military bands.
- fluidounce — Alternative form of fluid ounce.
- flummoxing — to bewilder; confound; confuse.
- flunkeydom — The state of a being a flunkey.
- flunkeyish — resembling a flunkey
- flunkeyism — Alt form flunkyism.
- fluorenone — (organic compound) An aromatic compound with the chemical formula C13H8O, produced from fluorene via oxidation and used in the manufacture of antimalaria drugs.
- fluorinate — to treat or combine with fluorine.
- fluoxetine — A synthetic compound that inhibits the uptake of serotonin in the brain and is taken to treat depression.
- flustering — Agitated, confusing.
- fluttering — Rapid back-and-forth waving or oscillation.
- fluxionist — a person who uses mathematical fluxions
- fluxuating — Misspelling of fluctuating.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- flying fox — any large fruit bat of the genus Pteropus, of Old World tropical regions, having a foxlike head.
- flying jib — the outer or outermost of two or more jibs, set well above the jib boom.
- flyingfish — any of a family (Exocoetidae, order Atheriniformes) of chiefly warm-water, marine bony fishes with winglike pectoral fins that enable them to glide through the air
- flyposting — the posting of advertising or political bills, posters, etc in unauthorized places
- flyscreens — Plural form of flyscreen.
- flytipping — Alternative form of fly-tipping.
- 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
- foisonless — without strength; weak
- folk dance — a dance that originated among, and has been transmitted through, the common people. Compare court dance.
- folkestone — a seaport in E Kent, in SE England, on the Strait of Dover.
- folksiness — friendly or neighborly; sociable.
- folksinger — A person who sings folk songs.
- folksonomy — a classification system derived from user-generated electronic tags or keywords that annotate and describe online content: Imprecise folksonomies can hinder information retrieval.
- folliculin — estrone.
- followings — a body of followers, attendants, adherents, etc.
- folsom man — a Paleo-Indian of the Folsom tradition.
- fondlingly — In a fondling manner.
- fontanelle — one of the spaces, covered by membrane, between the bones of the fetal or young skull.
- fontenelle — Bernard le Bovier de (bɛrnar lə bɔvje də). 1657–1757, French philosopher. His writings include Digressions sur les anciens et les modernes (1688) and Éléments de la géométrie de l'infini (1727)
- fonticulus — a fontanelle of the cranium
- fontinalis — a type of aquatic moss
- food chain — hierarchy of organisms
- food grain — any cereal grain produced for human consumption.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- foodgrains — Plural form of foodgrain.