12-letter words containing f, t
- blast effect — the damage caused by the force of an explosive blast
- bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
- blue catfish — a large freshwater catfish, Ictalurus furcatus, that is a popular food fish in the states of the Mississippi River valley.
- bluefin tuna — the largest tuna (Thunnus thynnus): it has bright red flesh and is important as a game and food fish
- 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
- bottomfeeder — (networking) An RSS aggregator.
- bracket foot — a corner foot of a chest or the like joining the sides in a concave line.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- buffet lunch — a lunch at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- bull mastiff — a large powerful breed of dog with a short usually fawn or brindle coat, developed by crossing the bulldog with the mastiff
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- bullfighting — Bullfighting is the public entertainment in which people try to kill bulls in bullfights.
- bushfighting — fighting in the bush
- busted flush — a poker hand with four cards of the same suit that fails to form a flush when the final card is dealt
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- cafe au lait — coffee with milk
- cafe curtain — a short curtain suspended directly downward from a series of rings sliding on a horizontal rod so as to cover the lower and sometimes upper portions of a window.
- cafe society — people, esp intellectuals and artists who meet in cafés
- call of duty — responsibilities
- cardan shaft — A cardan shaft or cardan drive is a propeller shaft fitted with universal joints at each end.
- cash deficit — the excess of cash disbursements over cash receipts in any given fiscal period
- cattleduffer — a cattle thief.
- center field — the middle area of the outfield
- central-fire — center-fire.
- centrifugate — the denser of the centrifuged materials.
- centrifuging — an apparatus that rotates at high speed and by centrifugal force separates substances of different densities, as milk and cream.
- certificated — A certificated person has been awarded a certificate to prove that they have achieved a certain level or standard.
- certificates — Plural form of certificate.
- chaetiferous — having bristles
- chaff-cutter — a machine used to chop up hay and straw to make it into chaff for feeding to cattle
- change front — to redeploy (a force in the field) so that its main weight of weapons points in another direction
- characterful — If you describe something as characterful, you mean that it is pleasant and interesting.
- chesterfield — a man's knee-length overcoat, usually with a fly front to conceal the buttons and having a velvet collar
- chew the fat — If people chew the fat, they talk in a relaxed, informal way.
- chief priest — the highest ranking among a number of priests
- chieftainess — a female chieftain
- chill factor — windchill factor
- chuck off at — to abuse or make fun of
- ciment fondu — a type of quick-hardening refractory cement having a high alumina content
- circumfluent — flowing around; surrounding; encompassing
- citrus fruit — any fruit belonging to the genus Citrus