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PFA

PFA is the initialism of Paper Football Association.

PFA is the initialism of Pacific Film Archive.

PFA is the initialism of Police Federation of Australia.

PFA is the initialism of Professional Footballers' Association.

PFA is the initialism of PHP for Android.

PFA is the abbreviation of paraformaldehyde.

Meaning of paraformaldehyde

Noun

paraformaldehyde (countable and uncountable, plural paraformaldehydes)

  1. A solid oligomer of formaldehyde that is used as a fumigant, and as a fixative in histology
    Synonyms:
    paraform, triformol

Forms of PFA

pluralPFAs

Questions about PFA

What is PFA the initialism of?
PFA is the initialism of Paper Football Association.

Words near PFA in the dictionary

  1. PF key
  2. PF keys
  3. PF ratio
  4. PF ratios
  5. pf.
  6. PFA
  7. PFAA
  8. PFAAs
  9. pfaff
  10. pfaffed
  11. Pfaffenschlag bei Waidhofen an der Thaya

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Adapted from Wiktionary: PFA (page history and authors); paraformaldehyde (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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