10-letter words containing a, f, o, r
- baculiform — shaped like a rod
- ballflower — a carved ornament in the form of a ball enclosed by the three petals of a circular flower
- barefooted — Wearing nothing on the feet; barefoot.
- barefooter — One who takes part in water skiing without wearing water skis.
- be all for — to be strongly in favour of
- beachfront — A beachfront house, café, shop, or hotel is situated on or by a beach.
- beamformer — The device used to accomplish beamforming.
- before-tax — before tax has been deducted; gross
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- caernarfon — a port and resort in NW Wales, in Gwynedd on the Menai Strait: 13th-century castle. Pop: 9726 (2001)
- cafetorium — a room, usually in a school or other educational institution, which serves both as a cafeteria and an auditorium
- cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
- calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
- calciferol — a fat-soluble steroid, found esp in fish-liver oils, produced by the action of ultraviolet radiation on ergosterol. It increases the absorption of calcium from the intestine and is used in the treatment of rickets. Formula: C28H43OH
- calefactor — a heater
- california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)
- call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
- calorifier — a water tank fitted with a coil, or coils, that can be heated in order to heat the water
- calyciform — having the form of a calyx
- camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
- cancriform — shaped like a crab
- caney fork — a river in central Tennessee, flowing NW to the Cumberland River. 144 miles (232 km) long.
- carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
- cash offer — a public equity issue sold to everyone who is interested in it
- castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
- cauliflory — the production of flowers on the trunk, branches, etc, of a woody plant, as opposed to the ends of the twigs
- cefadroxil — A broad-spectrum cephalosporin antibiotic.
- ceroferary — Candleholder (especially for a large, church candle).
- cfortran.h — (library) A transparent, machine independent interface between C and Fortran routines and global data, developed by Burkhard Burow at CERN. It provides macros which allow the C preprocessor to translate a simple description of a C (Fortran) routine or global data into a Fortran (C) interface. Version 2.6 runs on VAX/VMS/Ultrix, DECstation, Silicon Graphics, IBM RS/6000, Sun, Cray, Apollo, HP9000, LynxOS, f2c, NAG f90. cfortran.h was reviewed in RS/Magazine November 1992 and a user's experiences with cfortran.h are described in the Jan 93 issue of Computers in Physics.
- charge off — to treat or regard as a loss
- charge-off — a write-off, especially of a bad loan by a bank.
- chargeoffs — Plural form of chargeoff.
- chaudfroid — a sweet or savoury jellied sauce used to coat cold meat, chicken, etc
- chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
- chromaffin — showing a brown colour when in the presence of chromic acid
- claim form — an application form for claiming financial compensation
- clark fork — river flowing from W Mont. northwest into Pend Oreille Lake in N Ida.: c. 300 mi (483 km)
- clay flour — dried and pulverized clay.
- cloak fern — a type of fern, genus Notholaena, found in dry, rocky areas of temperate and tropical America, often used as an ornamental.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- cloverleaf — A cloverleaf is an arrangement of curved roads, resembling a four-leaf clover, that joins two main roads.