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13-letter words containing o, f, a

  • argentiferous — containing or bearing silver
  • argilliferous — containing or yielding clay
  • aridification — the process by which a humid region becomes increasingly dry, as by climatic change or human interference with the ecology.
  • at knifepoint — If you are attacked or robbed at knifepoint, someone threatens you with a knife while they attack or steal from you.
  • attested form — a linguistic form that can be shown to be in use or in written records
  • autoinfection — infection by a pathogenic agent already within the body or infection transferred from one part of the body to another
  • aviation fuel — fuel used to power airplanes
  • bachelor flat — a flat lived in, or intended for a bachelor
  • back to front — If you are wearing something back to front, you are wearing it with the back of it at the front of your body. If you do something back to front, you do it the wrong way around, starting with the part that should come last.
  • backformation — Alternative spelling of back-formation.
  • bag of tricks — a container or receptacle of leather, plastic, cloth, paper, etc., capable of being closed at the mouth; pouch.
  • bag of waters — a fluid-filled membranous sac in the pregnant uterus that encloses and cushions the fetus, normally breaking at or just before the time of birth; the amnion.
  • balloon frame — a wooden building frame composed of machine-sawed scantlings fastened with nails, having studs rising the full height of the frame with the joists nailed to the studs and supported by sills or by ribbons let into the studs.
  • balsamiferous — yielding or producing balsam
  • bank of issue — a bank, as a Federal Reserve Bank, empowered by a government to issue currency.
  • bargain offer — something for sale at a low price
  • baritone clef — an F clef locating F below middle C on the third line of the staff.
  • barnyard golf — Informal: Facetious. the game of horseshoes.
  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • basket flower — a composite plant, Centaurea americana, of central U.S. to Mexico, having raylike heads of tubular rose-colored flowers, each surrounded by a whorl of bracts making the flower head appear as if it is set in a basket.
  • bat-eared fox — a fox, Vulpes chama, inhabiting dry areas of southern Africa and having large pointed ears, silvery gray coat, and a bushy tail with a black tip.
  • bay for blood — If you say that people are baying for blood, you mean that they are demanding that someone should be hurt or punished.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • bay of biscay — a large bay of the Atlantic Ocean between W France and N Spain: notorious for storms
  • bay of gdańsk — a wide inlet of the Baltic Sea on the N coast of Poland
  • bay of naples — an inlet of the Tyrrhenian Sea in the SW coast of Italy
  • bay of plenty — a large bay of the Pacific on the NE coast of the North Island, New Zealand
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
  • bellefontaine — a city in W Ohio.
  • beneficiation — the procedure of reducing ores
  • beta function — a function of two variables, usually expressed as an improper integral and equal to the quotient of the product of the values of the gamma function at each variable divided by the value of the gamma function at the sum of the variables.
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • biotic factor — a living thing, as an animal or plant, that influences or affects an ecosystem: How do humans affect other biotic factors? Weather is not a biotic factor because it is not alive.
  • bird of peace — a dove.
  • black buffalo — a buffalofish, Ictiobus niger, of the Great Lakes and Mississippi River drainage systems south to Mexico.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • bloomfieldian — Linguistics. influenced by, resembling, or deriving from the linguistic theory and the methods of linguistic analysis advocated by Leonard Bloomfield, characterized especially by emphasis on the classification of overt formal features.
  • blow the gaff — to divulge a secret
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • bombax family — the plant family Bombacaceae, typified by tropical deciduous trees having palmate leaves, large and often showy solitary or clustered flowers, and dry fruit with a woolly pulp, and including the baobab and silk-cotton tree.
  • boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
  • borage family — any member of the plant family Boraginaceae, typified by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and trees having simple, alternate, hairy leaves and usually blue, five-lobed flowers in a cluster that uncoils as they bloom, including borage, bugloss, and forget-me-not.
  • bounced flash — a flash bounced off a reflective surface, as a ceiling or wall, to illuminate a subject indirectly.
  • branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
  • brass foundry — a foundry that makes things from brass
  • brassfounding — the practice of making things from brass
  • breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
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