12-letter words containing f, r, o
- bill of fare — The bill of fare at a restaurant is a list of the food for a meal from which you may choose what you want to eat.
- bird of prey — A bird of prey is a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.
- bit of skirt — a girl or woman
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
- booking form — a form used to book a holiday, accommodation, etc
- bosom friend — an intimate friend
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- bourgeoisify — to convert to a bourgeois attitude or appearance
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.
- burkina faso — an inland republic in W Africa: dominated by Mossi kingdoms (10th–19th centuries); French protectorate established in 1896; became an independent republic in 1960; consists mainly of a flat savanna plateau. Official language: French; Mossi and other African languages also widely spoken. Religion: mostly animist, with a large Muslim minority. Currency: franc. Capital: Ouagadougou. Pop: 17 812 961 (2013 est). Area: 273 200 sq km (105 900 sq miles)
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- calorie-free — containing no calories
- cam follower — the slider or roller in contact with the cam that transmits the movement dictated by the cam profile
- campo formio — a village in NE Italy, in Friuli-Venezia Giulia: scene of the signing of a treaty in 1797 that ended the war between revolutionary France and Austria
- campodeiform — resembling insects of the genus Campodea
- can of worms — a complicated problem
- cape-froward — Cape, a cape in S Chile, on the Strait of Magellan: southernmost point of mainland South America.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- carryforward — carry-over.
- carving fork — a large, two-tined fork with a metal guard to protect the hand, used to hold meat in place as it is being carved
- cauliflowers — Plural form of cauliflower.
- cefoperazone — A cephalosporin antibiotic.
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- chicago fire — a three-day fire in Chicago, Ill., in 1871 that largely destroyed the city and took several hundred lives.
- chiffonniere — a worktable of the 18th century, having several tiers of shallow drawers.
- childproofed — Simple past tense and past participle of childproof.
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chloroformed — Simple past tense and past participle of chloroform.
- chloroformer — someone who administers chloroform
- chlorpyrifos — a broad-spectrum insecticide, C 9 H 11 Cl 3 NO 3 PS, used on lawns and ornamental plants.
- chook raffle — a raffle for which the main prize is a roast chicken
- chromiferous — Containing, or yielding chromium.
- cigar flower — the common name for a small, shrubby plant, Cuphea ignea, of the loosestrife family, native to Mexico and Jamaica, grown as an ornamental and houseplant: named for its red tubular flowers that resemble cigars.