12-letter words containing f, e, t
- bastard file — a file of the commercial grade of coarseness between coarse and second-cut.
- battery farm — a farm that uses batteries for raising poultry
- battery fire — the firing of a battery of weapons
- battlefields — Plural form of battlefield.
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- beatifically — bestowing bliss, blessings, happiness, or the like: beatific peace.
- beaufort sea — part of the Arctic Ocean off the N coast of North America
- beautifulest — (dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
- beautifuller — (obsolete) Comparative form of beautiful.
- beef extract — a soluble paste of beef or beef blood extracts.
- beefheartian — of or recalling the music of Captain Beefheart and his Magic Band, an avant-garde rock/blues band (1966–1982); incorporating strange rhythms, free jazz elements, bizarre lyrics, and growling vocals
- befuddlement — to confuse, as with glib statements or arguments: politicians befuddling the public with campaign promises.
- benefactress — a female benefactor
- beneficiated — to treat (ore) to make more suitable for smelting.
- benefit club — a club whose members enjoy certain benefits, such as reduced prices for travel or sporting events
- biflagellate — having two flagella
- bindle stiff — a hobo.
- birth defect — an inherited disease or condition that a baby is born with
- birth father — a biological mother (birth mother) or biological father (birth father) a biological parent.
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
- bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
- 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
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- 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 virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- 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
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- central-fire — center-fire.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
- certificates — Plural form of certificate.