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14-letter words containing f, l, o

  • bluebottle fly — any of several iridescent blue blow flies, especially those of the genus Calliphora, some of which are parasitic on domestic animals.
  • body beautiful — a beautiful body
  • bornyl formate — a liquid, C 11 H 18 O 2 , having a piny odor, used chiefly as a scent in the manufacture of soaps and disinfectants.
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • brief of title — abstract of title
  • buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
  • buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • butterfly bomb — Military. a small, aerial, antipersonnel bomb with two folding wings that revolve, slowing the rate of descent and arming the fuze.
  • butterfly knot — a particularly resistant knot which resembles a butterfly and can take loads on both ends, as well as on the loop
  • butterfly roof — a roof having more than one slope, each descending inward from the eaves.
  • cache conflict — (storage)   A sequence of accesses to memory repeatedly overwriting the same cache entry. This can happen if two blocks of data, which are mapped to the same set of cache locations, are needed simultaneously. For example, in the case of a direct mapped cache, if arrays A, B, and C map to the same range of cache locations, thrashing will occur when the following loop is executed: See also ping-pong.
  • cafe con leche — a drink made by mixing strong coffee with hot or scalded milk
  • call of nature — Some people talk about a call of nature when referring politely to the need to go to the toilet.
  • calorification — the production of heat
  • caltrop family — the plant family Zygophyllaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having pinnate leaves, solitary or paired regular flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the creosote bush, lignum vitae, and puncture vine.
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • can ill afford — If you say that someone can ill afford to do something, or can ill afford something, you mean that they must prevent it from happening because it would be harmful or embarrassing to them.
  • canicola fever — an acute febrile disease of humans and dogs, characterized by inflammation of the stomach and intestines and by jaundice: caused by a spirochete, Leptospira canicola.
  • canton flannel — cotton flannel
  • capital inflow — In economics, capital inflow is the amount of capital coming into a country, for example in the form of foreign investment.
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • change of life — The change of life is the menopause.
  • chapel of ease — a church built to accommodate those living at a distance from the parish church
  • chapel of rest — a room in an undertaker's place of business where bodies are laid out in their coffins to be viewed before the funeral
  • chest of viols — a set of viols of different sizes, usually six in number, used in consorts
  • chlorosulfuric — (inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to chlorosulfuric acid or its derivatives.
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
  • class conflict — conflict between different social or economic classes
  • classification — A classification is a division or category in a system which divides things into groups or types.
  • classificatory — the act of classifying.
  • clerk of court — an officer of the court who maintains the records, among other duties
  • clerk of works — an employee who supervises building work in progress or the upkeep of existing buildings
  • clifford trust — a type of living trust set up for at least a 10-year period, during which the income goes to a beneficiary and after which the principal reverts to the grantor.
  • clouded sulfur — a sulfur butterfly, Colias philodice, having yellow wings with black edges and larvae that feed on clover and other legumes.
  • coffee-colored — having the medium-brown color of coffee mixed with cream or milk; moderately brown.
  • coffee-klatsch — to gather for a coffee klatsch.
  • come in useful — If an object or skill comes in useful, it can help you achieve something in a particular situation.
  • comfort letter — an informal statement assuring the financial soundness or backing of a company.
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • community life — the life and activities of a community
  • compound fault — a series of closely spaced faults
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • confessionally — in a confessional manner
  • confidentially — Confidentially is used to say that what you are telling someone is a secret and should not be discussed with anyone else.
  • configuraholic — (jargon)   A luser who twiddles with computer settings until it no longer works and must be fixed by the system administror.
  • confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
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