11-letter words containing f, o
- 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.
- bloody flux — dysentery.
- blow a fuse — If you blow a fuse, you suddenly become very angry and are unable to stay calm.
- body fluids — fluids in the body such as blood, semen, and saliva
- 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.
- bottom fish — any fish that feeds or lives near the bottom of a body of water, as a flounder or catfish
- bottom-fish — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
- bowie knife — a stout hunting knife with a short hilt and a guard for the hand
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- brassed off — fed up; disgruntled
- bread flour — wheat flour from which a large part of the starch has been removed, thus increasing the proportion of gluten.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- broad-faced — having a broad, wide face.
- brown dwarf — a type of celestial body midway in mass between a large planet and a small star
- brown flour — wheat flour that uses approximately 85% of the whole grain
- 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
- buffalo bug — carpet beetle
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
- bunchflower — a tall plant (Melanthium virginicum) of the lily family, growing in the E U.S. and having large clusters of white or greenish flowers
- buon fresco — fresco (def 1).
- button lift — a kind of ski lift for one person consisting of a moving cable to which is attached a pole with a circular plate at the bottom, which a skier places between his or her legs to be carried up the hill
- buy forward — If you buy forward, you buy at a future date for a price agreed upon today.
- buy-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- by force of — If something happens by force of a particular quality, action, or set of circumstances, it happens because of the nature or intensity of that quality, action, or set of circumstances.
- by means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by order of — according to the command of
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calcariform — shaped like a calcar
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate