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12-letter words containing e, f, o

  • bed of roses — If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
  • bedford cord — a heavy corded cloth, similar to corduroy
  • bedfordshire — a county of S central England, administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire: mainly low-lying, with the Chiltern Hills in the south: the geographical county includes Luton, which became a separate unitary authority in 1997. Area (excluding Luton): 1192 sq km (460 sq miles)
  • bellows fish — snipefish.
  • benioff zone — a long narrow region, usually adjacent to a continent, along which earthquake foci lie on a plane which dips downwards at about 45° and along which the oceanic lithosphere is thought to be descending into the earth's interior
  • beurre fondu — melted butter.
  • bichon frise — a small white poodle-like dog of European origin, with a silky, loosely curling coat
  • bill of fare — The bill of fare at a restaurant is a list of the food for a meal from which you may choose what you want to eat.
  • bill of sale — a deed transferring personal property, either outright or as security for a loan or debt
  • bird of prey — A bird of prey is a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.
  • black coffee — coffee with no milk, milk substitute, or cream added
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
  • bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
  • bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
  • boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
  • boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
  • boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.
  • book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
  • bosom friend — an intimate friend
  • bottomfeeder — (networking)   An RSS aggregator.
  • bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
  • bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
  • bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
  • brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
  • 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.
  • broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
  • brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
  • 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
  • buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • 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
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • 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
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • chaetiferous — having bristles
  • change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
  • chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
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