11-letter words containing a, b, f
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- better half — one's spouse
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
- black chaff — a disease of wheat, characterized by dark, elongated stripes on the chaff, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas translucens undulosum.
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- black friar — a Dominican friar
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
- brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
- buffalo bug — carpet beetle
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bullmastiff — a breed of dog
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- certifiable — If you describe someone as certifiable, you think that their behaviour is extremely unreasonable or foolish.
- certifiably — capable of being certified.