11-letter words containing f, t
- bear's-foot — either of two Eurasian hellebore plants, Helleborus foetidus or H. viridis, having leaves shaped like the foot and claws of a bear
- beat out of — If someone beats another person out of something, they get that thing by deceiving the other person or behaving dishonestly.
- beatificate — (obsolete, religion) To beatify.
- beautifiers — Plural form of beautifier.
- beautifuler — Obsolete spelling of beautifuller.
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- beef cattle — the cattle raised for meat
- beef tomato — a very large fleshy variety of tomato
- befittingly — suitable; proper; becoming: planned with a befitting sense of majesty.
- benefaction — the act of doing good, esp by giving a donation to charity
- benefactive — of or relating to a linguistic form, case, or semantic role that denotes the person or persons for whom an action is performed, as for his son in He opened the door for his son.
- benefactory — relating to a benefactor; beneficial
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- benefitting — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- 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.
- best friend — a dearest friend
- best of all — You use best of all to indicate that what you are about to mention is the thing that you prefer or that has most advantages out of all the things you have mentioned.
- better half — one's spouse
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- big-footing — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bindlestiff — a migratory worker; hobo
- bird's-foot — a European leguminous plant, Ornithopus perpusillus, with small red-veined white flowers and curved pods resembling a bird's claws
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
- 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.
- 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.
- breakfasted — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- breast-feed — When a woman breast-feeds her baby, she feeds it with milk from her breasts, rather than from a bottle.
- bring forth — to give birth to
- brute force — physical strength, power
- buffet line — A buffet line is a selection of food that is displayed on a long table. Guests usually serve themselves.
- buffet meal — meal at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bulletproof — Something that is bulletproof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bullfighter — A bullfighter is the person who tries to injure or kill the bull in a bullfight.
- bullmastiff — a breed of dog
- bumble-foot — an inflammatory condition of the feet of birds, usually caused by an infection
- butterfield — William. 1814–1900, British architect of the Gothic Revival; his buildings include Keble College, Oxford (1870) and All Saints, Margaret Street, London (1849–59)
- butterflies — tremors in the stomach region due to nervousness
- butterflyer — a swimmer who performs the butterfly stroke
- 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-to-fret — denoting the practice of buying a property to let to tenants during a period when property values are falling
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.