11-letter words containing a, f, e, r
- antiwelfare — opposed to the provision of welfare payments
- apoferritin — a homogeneous protein, found especially in the intestinal mucosa and the liver, that interacts with a ferric hydroxide-ferric phosphate complex to form ferritin.
- arafura sea — a part of the W Pacific Ocean, between N Australia and SW New Guinea
- arc furnace — a furnace in which the charge is heated by an electric arc
- area office — a part of a business, organization, etc which is the most important office in a specific geographical area
- art of love — Latin Ars Amatoria. a series of poems in three books (1? b.c.) by Ovid.
- artefactual — relating to an artefact
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
- ball-flower — a decoration in a molding that looks like a ball held in the petals of a flower
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
- barrel roof — a roof or ceiling having a semicylindrical form.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- beach drift — the drifting of sediments, especially marine sediments, in patterns parallel to the contours of a beach, due to the action of waves and currents.
- beaker folk — a prehistoric people thought to have originated in the Iberian peninsula and spread to central Europe and Britain during the second millennium bc
- bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- better half — one's spouse
- 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.
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calefactory — giving warmth
- californite — vesuvianite jade.
- canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
- career fair — recruitment event
- carefullest — Superlative form of careful.