10-letter words containing b, f
- brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
- brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- brush fire — a fire in brushwood
- brush-fire — limited in scope, area, or importance, as some labor disputes or local skirmishes.
- buck fever — nervous excitement felt by inexperienced hunters at the approach of game
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buff stick — a small stick covered with leather or the like, used in polishing.
- buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
- buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.
- buffoonish — resembling or in the manner of a buffoon
- buffy coat — a yellowish-white layer consisting of leukocytes that, upon centrifugation of blood, covers the red blood cells.
- bufotenine — a tryptamine alkaloid with hallucinogenic properties, found in the skin of some species of toad and in some mushrooms and tropical shrubs
- bugger off — If someone buggers off, they go away quickly and suddenly. People often say bugger off as a rude way of telling someone to go away.
- bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
- bully beef — tinned corned beef
- bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
- bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
- bumfreezer — any of various similar styles of short jacket worn by men
- bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
- burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
- bush knife — a large heavy knife suitable for outdoor use
- butt shaft — a blunt-headed unbarbed arrow
- butterfish — an eel-like blennioid food fish, Pholis gunnellus, occurring in North Atlantic coastal regions: family Pholidae (gunnels). It has a slippery scaleless golden brown skin with a row of black spots along the base of the long dorsal fin
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- by dint of — If you achieve a result by dint of something, you achieve it by means of that thing.
- by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
- capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
- cherubfish — a brilliantly colored butterflyfish, Centropyge argi, found in the West Indies: kept in home aquariums.
- chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
- chifferobe — a piece of furniture having both drawers and space for hanging clothes.
- chifforobe — an article of furniture that comprises a chest of drawers and a wardrobe
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- clubfooted — Having a clubfoot.