12-letter words containing b, e, f, a
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- black-figure — pertaining to or designating a style of vase painting developed in Greece in the 7th and 6th centuries b.c., chiefly characterized by silhouetted figures painted in black slip on a red clay body, details incised into the design, and a two-dimensional structure of form and space.
- bladder fern — a small fern, Cystoperis fragilis, with graceful lanceolate leaves, typically growing on limestone rocks and walls
- blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
- blind flange — a disk for closing the end of a pipe, having holes for bolting it to a flange.
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
- bluesnarfing — the practice of using one Bluetooth-enabled mobile phone to steal contact details, ring tones, images, etc from another
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- braced frame — a building frame employing a heavy, braced framework of solid girts mortised into solid posts the full height of the frame, with studs one story high filling the interstices.
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- brain freeze — Also called ice-cream headache. a pain in the temples and forehead brought on by quickly consuming very cold food or drink.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cape buffalo — a large, black, nearly hairless, very fierce buffalo (Syncerus caffer) of South Africa, with horns joined at the bases to form a helmetlike structure
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
- coffee beans — the beanlike seeds of the coffee tree, which are roasted and ground to make coffee
- coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
- coffee table — A coffee table is a small low table in a living room.
- combat knife — a large knife for military use
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- confabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of confabulate.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- double fault — (in tennis, squash, handball, etc.) two faults in succession, resulting in the loss of the point, the loss of the serve, or both.
- double-faced — practicing duplicity; hypocritical.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- ebb and flow — tidal movement
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.