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14-letter words containing f, r, o

  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • biceps femoris — See under biceps.
  • bill of rights — A Bill of Rights is a written list of citizens' rights which is usually part of the constitution of a country.
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • blanket-flower — any composite plant of the genus Gaillardia, having showy heads of yellow or red flowers.
  • board of trade — (in the United Kingdom) a ministry within the Department of Trade: responsible for the supervision of commerce and the promotion of export trade
  • body of christ — the Christian Church
  • book of mormon — a sacred book of the Mormon Church, believed by Mormons to be a history of certain ancient peoples in America, written on golden tablets (now lost) and revealed by the prophet Mormon to Joseph Smith
  • 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
  • boundary fence — a fence between properties
  • bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • brief of title — abstract of title
  • buffer overrun — buffer overflow
  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • caprimulgiform — Of or pertaining to the taxonomic order Caprimulgiformes.
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • 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 feeder — any animal that feeds on dead and rotting flesh
  • carrion flower — a liliaceous climbing plant, Smilax herbacea of E North America, whose small green flowers smell like decaying flesh
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • center forward — A center forward in a team sport such as soccer or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • central office — (communications)   The place where telephone companies terminate customer lines and locate switching equipment to interconnect those lines with other networks.
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
  • centre-forward — A centre-forward in a team sport such as football or hockey is the player or position in the middle of the front row of attacking players.
  • centrifugation — a being subjected to centrifugal action, esp. in a centrifuge
  • certifications — Plural form of certification.
  • 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
  • chlorosulfuric — (inorganic chemistry) Of or pertaining to chlorosulfuric acid or its derivatives.
  • church of rome — the Roman Catholic Church
  • circumferentor — an instrument that measures the circumference of a tyre
  • circumfixation — a prefix and a suffix attached to a root or stem, as the a and -ing in a-going.
  • clarifications — Plural form of clarification.
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