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12-letter words containing f, b

  • book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
  • booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
  • 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
  • boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
  • 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.
  • brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
  • bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
  • 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
  • buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
  • buffalo bill — nickname of William Frederick Cody. 1846–1917, US showman who toured Europe and the US with his famous Wild West Show
  • buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
  • buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
  • buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
  • 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 force — a force separating two opposing sides
  • buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
  • buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
  • buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
  • bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
  • bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
  • bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
  • burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
  • burj khalifa — a slender tapering skyscraper in Dubai; completed in 2009; the world's tallest man-made structure, standing at 828m (2716 ft)
  • burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
  • bushfighting — fighting in the bush
  • busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
  • butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
  • 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.
  • by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
  • 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
  • chipped beef — dried or smoked beef sliced into shavings, often served in a cream sauce
  • classifiable — to arrange or organize by classes; order according to class.
  • climbingfish — climbing perch.
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