11-letter words containing f
- buck's fizz — Buck's Fizz is a drink made by mixing champagne or another fizzy white wine with orange juice.
- buffalo bug — carpet beetle
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- buffer fund — money put aside to help alleviate the adverse short-term effects of something
- buffer zone — A buffer zone is an area created to separate opposing forces or groups which belongs to neither of them.
- 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
- bulbiferous — (of plants) producing bulbs
- bull fiddle — double bass
- 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
- 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).
- 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 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 means of — If you do something by means of a particular method, instrument, or process, you do it using that method, instrument, or process.
- by order of — according to the command of
- by yourself — If you are by yourself, you are alone.
- cabin fever — If you describe someone as having cabin fever, you mean that they feel restless and irritable because they have been indoors in one place for too long.
- cafe brulot — black coffee flavored with sugar, lemon and orange rinds, cloves, cinnamon, and brandy, ignited and allowed to flame briefly.
- cafe filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- cafe royale — black coffee, to which cognac, lemon peel, sugar, and sometimes cinnamon have been added.
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- caffe latte — latte
- caffeinated — with no natural caffeine removed
- calathiform — cup-shaped; concave.
- calcariform — shaped like a calcar
- calciferous — forming or producing salts of calcium, esp calcium carbonate
- calefacient — causing warmth
- calefaction — the act of heating
- calefactive — producing heat
- 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.
- calf-length — Calf-length skirts, dresses, and coats come to halfway between your knees and ankles.
- 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.)
- camouflaged — concealed or disguised
- camouflages — Plural form of camouflage.
- camouflagic — relating to camouflage
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- candle-foot — foot-candle
- candleflame — Flame of a candle.