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10-letter words containing f, l

  • bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
  • blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
  • blue flash — green flash.
  • blue shift — a shift toward shorter wavelengths of the spectral lines of a celestial object, caused by the motion of the object toward the observer.
  • bluefields — a city in SW West Virginia.
  • boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
  • bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
  • body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
  • bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
  • böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
  • bold-faced — confident or impudent
  • bone felon — felon2 .
  • brickfield — an area of ground where bricks are made
  • brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
  • broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
  • brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
  • brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
  • buff wheel — a wheel for buffing, consisting of a number of leather or canvas disks.
  • buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
  • bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
  • bull float — a machine for giving the final surfacing to an area of concrete, as on a road.
  • bully beef — tinned corned beef
  • bumbailiff — (formerly) an officer employed to collect debts and arrest debtors for nonpayment
  • bumblefoot — a swelling, sometimes purulent, of the ball of the foot in fowl.
  • bundle off — If someone is bundled off somewhere, they are sent there or taken there in a hurry.
  • burchfield — Charles Ephraim, 1893–1967, U.S. painter.
  • by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
  • by oneself — be oneself, to be in one's normal state of mind or physical condition. to be unaffected and sincere: One makes more friends by being oneself than by putting on airs.
  • caddicefly — caddisfly.
  • caddis fly — any of an order (Trichoptera) of small, mothlike insects with a soft body, long antennae and legs, and two pairs of hairy, membranous wings
  • cake flour — finely ground wheat flour.
  • calceiform — shaped like a shoe or slipper
  • calciferol — a fat-soluble steroid, found esp in fish-liver oils, produced by the action of ultraviolet radiation on ergosterol. It increases the absorption of calcium from the intestine and is used in the treatment of rickets. Formula: C28H43OH
  • calcifuges — Plural form of calcifuge.
  • calefactor — a heater
  • california — a state on the W coast of the US: the third largest state in area and the largest in population; consists of a narrow, warm coastal plain rising to the Coast Range, deserts in the south, the fertile central valleys of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Rivers, and the mountains of the Sierra Nevada in the east; major industries include the growing of citrus fruits and grapes, fishing, oil production, electronics, information technology, and films. Capital: Sacramento. Pop: 35 484 453 (2003 est). Area: 411 015 sq km (158 693 sq miles)
  • call forth — to cause (something) to come into action or existence
  • calorifier — a water tank fitted with a coil, or coils, that can be heated in order to heat the water
  • calyciform — having the form of a calyx
  • camouflage — Camouflage consists of things such as leaves, branches, or brown and green paint, which are used to make it difficult for an enemy to see military forces and equipment.
  • camoufleur — a person who camouflages military equipment
  • candlefish — a salmonoid food fish, Thaleichthys pacificus, that occurs in the N Pacific and has oily flesh
  • candyfloss — Candyfloss is a large pink or white mass of sugar threads that is eaten from a stick. It is sold at fairs or other outdoor events.
  • canefields — Plural form of canefield.
  • capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
  • cape flats — the strip of low-lying land in South Africa joining the Cape Peninsula proper to the African mainland
  • carrot fly — a dipterous insect, Psila rosae, that is a serious pest of carrots. The larvae tunnel into the root to feed
  • castleford — a town in N England, in Wakefield unitary authority, West Yorkshire on the River Aire. Pop: 37 525 (2001)
  • catafalque — a temporary raised platform on which a body lies in state before or during a funeral
  • catchflies — Plural form of catchfly.
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