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13-letter words containing o, f, r, a

  • 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.
  • beast of prey — any animal that hunts other animals for food
  • bedroom farce — a light comedy about sexual relationships
  • 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.
  • blanketflower — a hardy flowering plant, Gaillardia aristata, that grows in the US
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • bring forward — If you bring forward a meeting or event, you arrange for it to take place at an earlier date or time than had been planned.
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo grass — a short grass, Buchloë dactyloides, growing on the dry plains of the central US
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
  • burglar-proof — designed to be secure and to frustrate any attempted burglary
  • café coronary — a fatal choking condition brought on when food, dentures, etc. lodge in a person's throat while he or she is eating: it is often misinterpreted as a heart attack
  • calcariferous — having a spur or spurs
  • calico flower — a Brazilian woody vine, Aristolochia elegans, of the birthwort family, having large, solitary, white-spotted, purple flowers.
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
  • camp follower — If you describe someone as a camp follower, you mean that they do not officially belong to a particular group or movement but support it for their own advantage.
  • campaniliform — Alternative form of campaniform.
  • cannon fodder — If someone in authority regards people they are in charge of as cannon fodder, they do not care if these people are harmed or lost in the course of their work.
  • caprification — a method of pollinating the edible fig by hanging branches of caprifig flowers in edible fig trees. Parasitic wasps in the caprifig flowers transfer pollen to the edible fig flowers
  • carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
  • carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
  • carnification — the conversion of tissue into flesh or a fleshlike substance, as of lung tissue into fibrous tissue as a result of pneumonia.
  • carry forward — to transfer (a balance) to the next page, column, etc
  • carry too far — to take or support from one place to another; convey; transport: He carried her for a mile in his arms. This elevator cannot carry more than ten people.
  • caudine forks — a narrow pass in the Apennines, in S Italy, between Capua and Benevento: scene of the defeat of the Romans by the Samnites (321 bc)
  • caulifloweret — an individual floret from a cauliflower
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • certificatory — Serving to certify something.
  • cinnamon fern — a large, New World fern (Osmunda cinnamomea, family Osmundaceae) having sterile green fronds and other fronds that bear spores and turn a cinnamon color as the spores mature
  • ciprofloxacin — a broad-spectrum antibiotic used against Gram-negative bacteria. It is effective against anthrax
  • citation form — the spoken form a word has when produced in isolation, such as when cited for purposes of illustration, as distinguished from the form it would have when produced in the normal stream of speech.
  • clarification — to make (an idea, statement, etc.) clear or intelligible; to free from ambiguity.
  • clarificatory — Of or pertaining to clarification.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cochleariform — having a spoon shape
  • colorfastness — The characteristic of being colorfast.
  • comfort woman — a girl or woman forced into prostitution by Japanese soldiers during World War II.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • common factor — a number or quantity that is a factor of each member of a group of numbers or quantities
  • common rafter — a rafter having no function other than to bear roofing.
  • confabulatory — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
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