10-letter words containing n, f
- facinorous — extremely wicked
- factfinder — a person who searches impartially for the facts or actualities of a subject or situation, especially one appointed to conduct an official investigation, as in a labor-management conflict.
- factionary — a member of a faction
- factionist — the leader or representative of a faction
- fahrenheit — Gabriel Daniel [German gah-bree-el dah-nee-el] /German ˈgɑ briˌɛl ˈdɑ niˌɛl/ (Show IPA), 1686–1736, German physicist: devised a temperature scale and introduced the use of mercury in thermometers.
- faintheart — person who lacks courage; coward.
- fairground — Often, fairgrounds. a place where fairs, horse races, etc., are held; in the U.S. usually an area set aside by a city, county, or state for an annual fair and often containing exhibition buildings.
- fairminded — Alternative form of fair-minded.
- fairy ring — any of numerous mushrooms of meadows and open woods, especially the well-known Marasmius oreades, that spread in rings originating from mycelial growth: formerly supposed to mark the paths laid by dancing fairies.
- falkenhayn — Erich von [ey-rikh fuh n] /ˈeɪ rɪx fən/ (Show IPA), 1861–1922, German general of World War I.
- fall among — to come among by chance
- fall front — a part of a desk front, hinged at the lower end and opening out to provide a writing surface.
- fall under — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallowness — (of land) plowed and left unseeded for a season or more; uncultivated.
- false dawn — zodiacal light occurring before sunrise.
- false pond — a mirage.
- falsifying — Present participle of falsify.
- falun gong — a Chinese system of meditation, martial-arts exercises, and spiritual teachings.
- family man — a man who has a spouse and one or more children.
- familymoon — A honeymoon in which the newlywed couple bring along their children.
- famishment — Starvation; the fact or process of being famished.
- famotidine — A histamine H2-receptor antagonist that inhibits stomach acid production, commonly used to treat peptic ulcers.
- famousness — having a widespread reputation, usually of a favorable nature; renowned; celebrated: a famous writer. Synonyms: famed, notable, illustrious. Antonyms: unknown, obscure.
- fan heater — a space heater consisting of an electrically heated element with an electrically driven fan to disperse the heat by forced convection
- fan letter — a letter sent by an admiring fan, as to a celebrity.
- fan window — a window having a fanlike form with radiating sash bars, used especially as a fanlight.
- fan-shaped — shaped like a fan
- fanaticise — Alternative spelling of fanaticize.
- fanaticism — fanatical character, spirit, or conduct.
- fanaticize — to make fanatical.
- fancifully — characterized by or showing fancy; capricious or whimsical in appearance: a fanciful design of butterflies and flowers.
- fancy dive — any of the series of specified dives executed in fancy diving, as the jackknife or gainer.
- fancy fern — a common fern, Dryopteris austriaca spinulosa, having delicate, lacy leaves and used extensively in floral arrangements.
- fancy-free — free from any emotional tie or influence, especially that of love.
- fanfiction — Alternative spelling of fan fiction.
- fang lizhi — 1936–2012, Chinese astrophysicist and human-rights campaigner, lived in the US from 1990
- fangirling — Present participle of fangirl.
- fannie mae — Federal National Mortgage Association.
- fanny pack — a small zippered pouch suspended from a belt around the waist.
- fantasised — Simple past tense and past participle of fantasise.
- fantasized — Simple past tense and past participle of fantasize.
- fantasizer — to conceive fanciful or extravagant notions, ideas, suppositions, or the like (often followed by about): to fantasize about the ideal job.
- fantasizes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of fantasize.
- fantastick — Obsolete form of fantastic.
- fantastico — a very bizarre person.
- fantoccini — Puppets caused to perform dramatic scenes by means of machinery.
- far-seeing — having foresight; sagacious; discerning.
- faradizing — Present participle of faradize.
- farmington — a city in NW New Mexico.
- farnsworth — Philo Taylor [fahy-loh] /ˈfaɪ loʊ/ (Show IPA), 1906–71, U.S. physicist and inventor: pioneer in the field of television.