11-letter words containing i, a, f
- beautifully — in a beautiful manner
- beautifying — Present participle of beautify.
- 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.
- benefactrix — benefactress.
- beneficiary — Someone who is a beneficiary of something is helped by it.
- beneficiate — to process (ores) through reduction
- bifoliolate — (of compound leaves) consisting of two leaflets
- bifurcation — the act or fact of bifurcating
- binary file — (file format) Any file format for digital data that does not consist of a sequence of printable characters (text). The term is often used for executable machine code. All digital data, including characters, is actually binary data (unless it uses some (rare) system with more than two discrete levels) but the distinction between binary and text is well established. On modern operating systems a text file is simply a binary file that happens to contain only printable characters, but some older systems distinguish the two file types, requiring programs to handle them differently. A common class of binary files is programs in machine language ("executable files") ready to load into memory and execute. Binary files may also be used to store data output by a program, and intended to be read by that or another program but not by humans. Binary files are more efficient for this purpose because the data (e.g. numerical data) does not need to be converted between the binary form used by the CPU and a printable (ASCII) representation. The disadvantage is that it is usually necessary to write special purpose programs to manipulate such files since most general purpose utilities operate on text files. There is also a problem sharing binary numerical data between processors with different endianness. Some communications protocols handle only text files, e.g. most electronic mail systems before MIME became widespread in about 1995. The FTP utility must be put into "binary" mode in order to copy a binary file since in its default "ascii" mode translates between the different newline characters used on the sending and receiving computers. Confusingly, some word processor files, and rich text files, are actually binary files because they contain non-printable characters and require special programs to view, edit and print them.
- binary form — a structure consisting of two sections, each being played twice
- bio-warfare — biological warfare.
- biofeedback — a technique for teaching the control of autonomic functions, such as the rate of heartbeat or breathing, by recording the activity and presenting it (usually visually) so that the person can know the state of the autonomic function he or she is learning to control
- bitmap font — a font format in which letters and symbols are stored as a pattern of dots
- black friar — a Dominican friar
- boniface ii — pope a.d. 530–532.
- boniface iv — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- boniface ix — (Pietro Tomacelli) died 1404, Italian ecclesiastic: pope 1389–1404.
- boniface vi — pope a.d. 896.
- brain fever — inflammation of the brain or its covering membranes
- brake fluid — an oily liquid used to transmit pressure in a hydraulic brake or clutch system
- branchiform — shaped like a gill.
- bread knife — a knife designed or suitable for slicing bread, as one having a wavy or saw-toothed blade.
- buffalofish — any of several freshwater North American hump-backed cyprinoid fishes of the genus Ictiobus: family Catostomidae (suckers)
- bullmastiff — a breed of dog
- 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 filtre — a strong black filtered coffee
- cafetoriums — Plural form of cafetorium.
- 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
- 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.
- 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.)
- camouflagic — relating to camouflage
- campaniform — shaped like a bell
- capilliform — Having the form of a hair.
- capping fee — a fee paid for a day of hunting with an association of hunters of which one is not a member.
- career fair — recruitment event
- carniferous — bearing flesh.
- carnificial — relating to or belonging to an executioner or butcher
- catch flies — any of various plants, especially of the genera Silene and Lychnis, having a viscid secretion on the stem and calyx in which small insects are sometimes caught.
- cauliflower — Cauliflower is a large round vegetable that has a hard white centre surrounded by green leaves.
- ceftazidime — A third-generation cephalosporin antibiotic, usually reserved for the treatment of infections caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa.
- ceftriaxone — (pharmaceutical drug) A synthetic cephalosporin antibiotic.