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13-letter words containing n, f

  • antiinfection — Preventing or counteracting infection.
  • antiinfective — Antiinfection.
  • antireflexive — noting a relation in which no element is in relation to itself, as “less than.”.
  • antireformers — Plural form of antireformer.
  • antisudorific — an antiperspirant.
  • any number of — several or many
  • anywhere from — any quantity, time, degree, etc, above a specified limit
  • aperitif-wine — a small drink of alcoholic liquor taken to stimulate the appetite before a meal.
  • argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
  • aridification — the process by which a humid region becomes increasingly dry, as by climatic change or human interference with the ecology.
  • aschaffenburg — a city in Germany, on the River Main in Bavaria: seat of the Imperial Diet (1447); ceded to Bavaria in 1814. Pop: 68 607 (2003 est)
  • at first hand — If you learn or experience something at first hand, you experience it yourself or learn it directly rather than being told about it by other people.
  • at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
  • autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
  • aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
  • back and fill — to manoeuvre the sails by alternately filling and emptying them of wind to navigate in a narrow place
  • back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • bafana bafana — the official name for the South African national soccer team
  • baffin island — the largest island of the Canadian Arctic, between Greenland and Hudson Bay. Area: 476 560 sq km (184 000 sq miles)
  • balance shaft — a shaft in a vehicle engine that is designed to reduce the amount of vibration from other moving parts as it rotates
  • balance staff — a pivoted axle or shaft on which the balance is mounted.
  • balanced fund — a mutual fund made up of both stocks and bonds
  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • banana family — the plant family Musaceae, characterized by large treelike herbaceous plants of tropical regions, having a trunk formed by spiraling leaf sheaths, and bearing large leaves, flower clusters above leathery red-to-purple bracts, and fleshy fruit in clusters, including the banana and plantain.
  • bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
  • bank transfer — a payment between two bank accounts
  • barefacedness — The state or quality of being barefaced.
  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • basement flat — a flat below the ground floor of a building
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • bbn butterfly — (computer)   A supercomputer developed at BBN Technologies, named after the "butterfly" multi-stage switching network around which it was built. It could have up to 512 CPUs connected to allow every CPU access to every other CPU's memory, albeit with about 15 times the latency than for its own. The earlier GP-1000 models used up to 256 Motorola 68020s. The later TC-2000 models used up to 512 Motorola 88100s. Language developed for, or ported to, the BBN Butterfly were Butterfly Common LISP, Butterfly Scheme, Delirium, and MultiScheme.
  • be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
  • be spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beautifulness — having beauty; possessing qualities that give great pleasure or satisfaction to see, hear, think about, etc.; delighting the senses or mind: a beautiful dress; a beautiful speech.
  • beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
  • bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
  • beneficential — relating to beneficence
  • beneficiary's — a person or group that receives benefits, profits, or advantages.
  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • benefit fraud — the illegal activity of claiming benefit payments which a person is not entitled to
  • benefit match — a sports match organized to raise money for charity, or for a particular player
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