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12-letter words containing f, a, c

  • bid defiance — to resist boldly
  • bifunctional — having two functions
  • birch family — the plant family Betulaceae, characterized by deciduous trees having simple serrate leaves, male flowers in drooping catkins, female flowers in short clusters, and one-seeded nuts, and including the alder, birch, hazel, and hornbeam.
  • bird fancier — a person who keeps, breeds, or sells birds
  • black africa — Black Africa is the part of Africa to the south of the Sahara Desert.
  • black coffee — coffee with no milk, milk substitute, or cream added
  • black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
  • black friday — the day after the US Thanksgiving Day in late November, regarded as the start of the Christmas shopping season
  • 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.
  • blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
  • blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
  • body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
  • bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
  • 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.
  • brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
  • breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
  • c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
  • cafe au lait — coffee with milk
  • cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
  • cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
  • call of duty — responsibilities
  • 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
  • camouflaging — Present participle of camouflage.
  • campo formio — a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • can of worms — a complicated problem
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • 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.
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • 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
  • card surfing — a form of cash-card fraud in which one person watches another using a cash dispenser, notes his or her personal identification number, and, after an accomplice has stolen the card, uses the card to withdraw cash
  • cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
  • cardinalfish — any of the perchlike fishes of the family Apogonidae, many species of which are bright red with black markings.
  • carefreeness — without anxiety or worry.
  • carrier-free — (of a radioactive isotope) capable of functioning as a tracer without the use of a carrier.
  • carryforward — carry-over.
  • carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
  • cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
  • casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
  • cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
  • cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
  • cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
  • central-fire — center-fire.
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