12-letter words containing o, f, a
- anti-foreign — the policy or practice of showing hostility toward foreigners, foreign customs, etc.
- antifriction — intended to reduce friction
- antireformer — One who opposes reform.
- arba kanfoth — a rectangular piece of cloth with fringes at the four corners and a hole in the center for the head, worn under the clothes by Orthodox Jewish males.
- arfvedsonite — a type of hornblende with the composition Na3(Fe,Mg)4FeSi8O22(OH)2
- armed forces — The armed forces or the armed services of a country are its military forces, usually the army, navy, marines, and air force.
- army officer — a person in the army who holds a position of authority, responsibility and duty, especially one who holds a commission
- arseniferous — Lb geology Containing or producing arsenic.
- aschoff body — any of the spindleshaped nodules found in heart tissue and associated with the myocarditis of rheumatic fever.
- assay office — an organization that assays and monitors the purity of precious metals in a particular country
- assuefaction — the condition of being or becoming familiar with or used to something
- astroturfing — a PR tactic used in politics and advertising in which actors are paid to display overt and apparently spontaneous grassroots support for a particular product, policy, or event
- autofellatio — Oral stimulation of one's own penis.
- axis of evil — North Korea, Iraq, and Iran when considered together as a perceived threat to world stability
- baffle board — a plate or mechanical device designed to restrain or regulate the flow of a fluid, the emission of light or sound, or the distribution of sound, esp in a loudspeaker or microphone
- ball of fire — a very lively person
- band of hope — a society promoting lifelong abstention from alcohol among young people: founded in Britain in 1847
- bard of avon — Shakespeare
- barking frog — a robber frog, Hylactophryne augusti, of Texas, New Mexico, and Mexico, having a call like a dog's bark.
- basification — the process of making something alkaline
- battlefronts — Plural form of battlefront.
- bay of fundy — an inlet of the Atlantic in SE Canada, between S New Brunswick and W Nova Scotia: remarkable for its swift tides of up to 21 m (70 ft)
- beaconsfield — a town in SE England, in Buckinghamshire. Pop: 12 292 (2001)
- beaufort sea — part of the Arctic Ocean off the N coast of North America
- bed of nails — a situation or position of extreme difficulty
- bifunctional — having two functions
- 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.
- bill of sale — a deed transferring personal property, either outright or as security for a loan or debt
- bioflavonoid — any of a group of biologically active flavone compounds that may help maintain the blood's capillary walls, reducing the likelihood of hemorrhaging: widely found in plants, esp. citrus fruits
- black coffee — coffee with no milk, milk substitute, or cream added
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- body fascism — intolerance of those whose bodies do not conform to a particular view of what is desirable
- bog of allen — a region of peat bogs in central Ireland, west of Dublin. Area: over 10 sq km (3.75 sq miles)
- bomb factory — a site or building in which terrorists illicitly and secretly create bombs
- boniface iii — pope a.d. 607.
- boniface vii — antipope a.d. 974, 984–985.
- bounce flash — a flash lamp designed to produce a bounced flash.
- boyoma falls — a series of seven cataracts in the NE Democratic Republic of Congo, on the upper River Congo: forms an unnavigable stretch of 90 km (56 miles), which falls 60 m (200 ft)
- 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.
- bubble float — a hollow spherical float that can be weighted with water to aid casting
- buffalo bill — nickname of William Frederick Cody. 1846–1917, US showman who toured Europe and the US with his famous Wild West Show
- buffalo bird — a cowbird, Molothrus ater, of North America.
- buffalo fish — any of a genus (Ictiobus) of large, humpbacked, freshwater sucker fishes found in North America
- buffalo gnat — any of various small North American blood-sucking dipterous insects of the genus Simulium and related genera: family Simuliidae
- 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
- burglarproof — safeguarded or secure against burglary.