11-letter words containing f, a
- 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.
- bashfulness — The quality or property of being bashful; shyness; reserve; timidity.
- basket fern — a small, compact fern, Nephrolepis pectinata, of tropical America, often grown in hanging baskets.
- basket fish — basket star.
- bass fiddle — double bass.
- bass reflex — a loudspeaker equipped with a baffle having openings designed to improve the reproduction of low-frequency sounds.
- battlefield — A battlefield is a place where a battle is fought.
- battlefront — the front line of a battle, where the action takes place
- bay of pigs — a bay on the SW coast of Cuba: scene of an unsuccessful invasion of Cuba by US-backed troops (April 17, 1961)
- 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
- beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
- beatificate — (obsolete, religion) To beatify.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- before dark — If you do something before dark, you do it before the sun sets and night begins.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- better half — one's spouse
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
- black chaff — a disease of wheat, characterized by dark, elongated stripes on the chaff, caused by a bacterium, Xanthomonas translucens undulosum.
- black dwarf — a cold, dark dwarf star
- black friar — a Dominican friar
- black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
- blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes