10-letter words containing af
- afterbirth — the placenta and fetal membranes expelled from the uterus after the birth of the offspring
- afterbrain — metencephalon (sense 1)
- afterclaps — Plural form of afterclap.
- afterdecks — Plural form of afterdeck.
- afterglows — Plural form of afterglow.
- aftergrass — grass that grows in a field after a crop (usually of grass) has been harvested
- afterguard — a sailor or group of sailors stationed on the poop to attend to the aft sails
- afterhours — occurring, engaged in, or operating after the normal or legal closing time for business: an after-hours drinking club.
- afterimage — a sustained or renewed sensation, esp visual, after the original stimulus has ceased
- afterlight — the light visible in the sky after sunset; afterglow.
- afterlives — Plural form of afterlife.
- aftermaths — Plural form of aftermath.
- afternoone — Obsolete spelling of afternoon.
- afternoons — during the afternoon, esp regularly
- afterpains — cramplike pains caused by contraction of the uterus after childbirth
- afterparty — An afterparty is a small party held after a larger event, to which only a small group of guests is invited.
- afterpiece — a brief usually comic dramatic piece presented after a play
- aftersales — (business) Alternative form of aftersale.
- aftershaft — a secondary feather arising near the base of a contour feather
- aftershave — Aftershave is a liquid with a pleasant smell that men sometimes put on their faces after shaving.
- aftershock — Aftershocks are smaller earthquakes which occur after a large earthquake.
- afterswarm — a secondary (or tertiary) swarm of bees which leaves the colony after the main swarm has left, in the company of a virgin queen
- aftertaste — An aftertaste is a taste that remains in your mouth after you have finished eating or drinking something.
- afterwards — If you do something or if something happens afterwards, you do it or it happens after a particular event or time that has already been mentioned.
- afterwhile — (US, dialect) afterwards.
- afterwords — Plural form of afterword.
- afterworld — a world inhabited after death
- allografts — Plural form of allograft.
- anti-draft — a drawing, sketch, or design.
- aquafortis — concentrated nitric acid, used for etching
- asafoetida — a bitter resin with an unpleasant onion-like smell, obtained from the roots of some umbelliferous plants of the genus Ferula: formerly used as a carminative, antispasmodic, and expectorant
- assafetida — asafetida
- autografts — Plural form of autograft.
- back shaft — a spindle carrying back gears.
- back staff — an obsolete instrument for determining the altitude of the sun by facing away from the sun, sighting upon the horizon, adjusting a cursor until its shadow falls upon the sight through which the horizon appears, and measuring the resulting arc.
- baffin bay — part of the Northwest Passage, situated between Baffin Island and Greenland
- bafflement — Bafflement is the state of being baffled.
- bafflingly — to confuse, bewilder, or perplex: He was baffled by the technical language of the instructions.
- bank draft — A bank draft is a cheque which you can buy from a bank in order to pay someone who is not willing to accept a personal cheque.
- bass staff — a staff marked with a bass clef.
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- cafe creme — coffee with cream.
- cafeterias — Plural form of cafeteria.
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- caffeinate — To add caffeine.
- caffeinism — caffeism
- catafalque — a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral
- chaffering — Present participle of chaffer.