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11-letter words containing a, f, l

  • baffleplate — a plate used as a baffle.
  • bailiffship — the office of a bailiff
  • bakersfield — city in SC Calif.: pop. 247,000
  • balefulness — The characteristic of being baleful.
  • ball of wax — everything, including all details, parts, etc., relating to a particular matter: He came back from Chicago with the contract for the whole ball of wax.
  • ball-flower — a decoration in a molding that looks like a ball held in the petals of a flower
  • ballet flat — a shoe with a very flat heel or no heel, resembling a ballet slipper worn by dancers.
  • balloonfish — a porcupinefish, Diodon holacanthus, inhabiting tropical and subtropical waters.
  • banefulness — The state or quality of being baneful.
  • barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
  • barfulation — /bar`fyoo-lay'sh*n/ Variation of barf used around the Stanford area. An exclamation, expressing disgust. On seeing some particularly bad code one might exclaim, "Barfulation! Who wrote this, Quux?"
  • 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.
  • bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
  • bass fiddle — double bass.
  • bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
  • battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
  • battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
  • 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
  • beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
  • beautifully — in a beautiful manner
  • beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • caffe latte — latte
  • calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
  • calcariform — shaped like a calcar
  • calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
  • calefacient — causing warmth
  • calefaction — the act of heating
  • calefactive — producing heat
  • calefactory — giving warmth
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