11-letter words containing f, c
- auction off — If you auction off something, you sell it to the person who offers the most money for it, often at an auction.
- authorcraft — the skilled ability of an author
- autofocuses — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of autofocus.
- bacciferous — bearing berries
- bacilliform — shaped like a rod
- back office — the administrative and support staff of a financial institution or other business
- back out of — to withdraw from (an enterprise)
- backfilling — material used for refilling an excavation.
- backflowing — Flowing backwards.
- barefacedly — In a barefaced manner.
- barrel cuff — a single cuff on a tailored sleeve, formed by a band of material and usually fastened by a button.
- be confined — to be undergoing childbirth
- 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.
- beatificate — (obsolete, religion) To beatify.
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- 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.
- beneficence — the act of doing good; kindness
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- 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
- 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
- block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
- 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.
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
- broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
- brute force — physical strength, power
- buck's fizz — Buck's Fizz is a drink made by mixing champagne or another fizzy white wine with orange juice.
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- by force of — If something happens by force of a particular quality, action, or set of circumstances, it happens because of the nature or intensity of that quality, action, or set of circumstances.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- caffe latte — latte
- caffeinated — with no natural caffeine removed
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.