11-letter words containing a, f, r
- aircraftman — a serviceman of the most junior rank in the RAF
- aircraftmen — Plural form of aircraftman.
- alfilerilla — Alt form alfilaria.
- alford plea — Law. a pleading of guilty in a plea bargain in which the defendant maintains his or her innocence.
- alfred lunt — Alfred, 1893–1977, U.S. actor (husband of Lynn Fontanne).
- algin fiber — an alkali-soluble fiber produced by injecting a fine stream of alkaline algin into an aqueous solution of a metallic salt, used chiefly in the manufacture of fine threads.
- altoruffled — altogether ruffled
- amber fluid — beer
- anfractuous — characterized by twists and turns; convoluted
- animal farm — a political satire (1945) by George Orwell.
- antenniform — shaped like an antenna
- anti-reform — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- antifebrile — reducing fever; antipyretic
- antifebrine — (pharmaceutical drug) A compound of aniline with acetyl, used to allay fever or pain.
- antiforeign — opposed to or discriminating against foreigners or foreign countries
- 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.
- aqua fortis — nitric acid
- aquafortist — a person who makes engravings or etchings through the use of aqua fortis
- 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
- artifactual — any object made by human beings, especially with a view to subsequent use.
- arty-crafty — affectedly artistic, esp in a homespun or rural style
- arum family — the plant family Araceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having numerous tiny flowers on a fleshy spike above or sheathed by a large spathe, and including the anthurium, calla lily, jack-in-the-pulpit, and philodendron.
- asbestiform — having the look or structure of asbestos
- authorcraft — the skilled ability of an author
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- 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
- barbary fig — prickly pear.
- 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?"
- bargain for — If you have not bargained for or bargained on something that happens, you did not expect it to happen and so feel surprised or worried by it.
- 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.