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12-letter words containing f, e

  • boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
  • boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.
  • book of odes — a collection of 305 poems compiled in the 6th century b.c. by Confucius.
  • 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
  • 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 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
  • 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 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.
  • 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
  • calorie-free — containing no calories
  • cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
  • campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
  • candlefishes — Plural form of candlefish.
  • 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
  • cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
  • caper family — the plant family Capparidaceae (or Capparaceae), characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having alternate, simple, or palmate leaves, irregular flowers with four petals, and fruit in the form of elongated capsules or berries, including the caper and cleome.
  • 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
  • carefreeness — without anxiety or worry.
  • carrier-free — (of a radioactive isotope) capable of functioning as a tracer without the use of a carrier.
  • cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
  • casing knife — a knife for trimming wallpaper after it has been attached.
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