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.