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11-letter words containing f, r, o

  • benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
  • best effort — (networking)   A classification of low priority network traffic, used especially the Internet. Different kinds of traffic have different priorities. Videoconferencing and other types of real-time communication, for example, require a certain minimum guaranteed bandwidth and latency and so must be given a high priority. Electronic mail, on the other hand, can tolerate an arbitrarily long delay and is classified as a "best-effort" service.
  • bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
  • binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
  • bio-warfare — biological warfare.
  • bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
  • black frost — a frost without snow or rime that is severe enough to blacken vegetation
  • block front — Furniture. a front of a desk, chest of drawers, etc., of the third quarter of the 18th century, having three vertical divisions of equal width, a sunken one between raised ones, all divided by flat areas to which they are connected by curves, often with a shell motif forming a rounded termination to each section.
  • bloodflower — a showy milkweed, Asclepias curassavica, of tropical America, having brilliant orange-red flowers and smooth fruit.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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).
  • 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 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
  • calefactory — giving warmth
  • calf roping — a timed rodeo event in which a mounted rider chases and lassos a calf, dismounts, and throws the calf to the ground, tying three of the animal's legs with a short length of rope.
  • californian — of or relating to California or its inhabitants
  • californite — vesuvianite jade.
  • californium — a metallic transuranic element artificially produced from curium. Symbol: Cf; atomic no: 98; half-life of most stable isotope, 251Cf: 800 years (approx.)
  • campaniform — shaped like a bell
  • canto fermo — a melody that is the basis to which other parts are added in polyphonic music
  • capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
  • careless of — indifferent to; untroubled by
  • carniferous — bearing flesh.
  • cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
  • ceftriaxone — (pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.
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