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11-letter words containing f, e, b

  • beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
  • beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
  • benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
  • bergenfield — a city in NE New Jersey.
  • berkeley fp — (language)   A version of Backus's FP distributed with 4.2BSD Unix.
  • best effort — (networking)   A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
  • best friend — a dearest friend
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
  • 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
  • bird feeder — A bird feeder is an object that you fill with seeds or nuts and hang up outside in order attract birds.
  • blackfellow — Australian Aborigine
  • blindfolded — wearing a blindfold
  • blood fluke — any parasitic flatworm, such as a schistosome, that lives in the blood vessels of man and other vertebrates: class Digenea
  • bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
  • blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
  • bonefishing — the activity of fishing for bonefish
  • 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.
  • bonne femme — prepared in simple style, as in a cream sauce containing mushrooms: fillet of sole bonne femme.
  • booking fee — a fee that some theatre and agencies charge the customer for booking through them
  • bored stiff — very bored
  • boston fern — a cultivated fern (Nephrolepis exaltata var. bostoniensis) with odd-pinnate leaves, used as a house plant
  • bottle fern — a fern, Cystopteris fragilis, of rocky, wooded areas throughout North America, having grayish-green fronds and brittle stalks.
  • bottle-feed — If you bottle-feed a baby, you give it milk or a liquid like milk in a bottle rather than the baby sucking milk from its mother's breasts.
  • bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
  • brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
  • brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
  • branfulness — (of flour) the state of being unsifted and hence full of bran
  • brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
  • brazenfaced — having, or uttered with, a brazen expression; impudent; shameless
  • bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
  • bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
  • breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
  • brimfulness — the quality of being completely full or full to the brim
  • broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
  • browned off — If you say that you are browned off, you mean that you are annoyed and depressed.
  • browned-off — a dark tertiary color with a yellowish or reddish hue.
  • brute force — physical strength, power
  • buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
  • buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
  • buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
  • buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
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