12-letter words containing o, f
- 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)
- be queer for — to have a strong liking for; be obsessed with
- 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
- bed of roses — If you say that a situation is not a bed of roses, you mean that it is not as pleasant as it seems, and that there are some unpleasant aspects to it.
- bedford cord — a heavy corded cloth, similar to corduroy
- bedfordshire — a county of S central England, administered since 2009 by the unitary authorities of Bedford and Central Bedfordshire: mainly low-lying, with the Chiltern Hills in the south: the geographical county includes Luton, which became a separate unitary authority in 1997. Area (excluding Luton): 1192 sq km (460 sq miles)
- bellows fish — snipefish.
- benioff zone — a long narrow region, usually adjacent to a continent, along which earthquake foci lie on a plane which dips downwards at about 45° and along which the oceanic lithosphere is thought to be descending into the earth's interior
- beurre fondu — melted butter.
- bichon frise — a small white poodle-like dog of European origin, with a silky, loosely curling coat
- 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
- bird of prey — A bird of prey is a bird such as an eagle or a hawk that kills and eats other birds and animals.
- bit of fluff — a girl or young woman
- bit of skirt — a girl or woman
- black coffee — coffee with no milk, milk substitute, or cream added
- black forest — wooded mountain region in SW Germany
- bloemfontein — a city in central South Africa: capital of Free State province and judicial capital of the country. Pop: 111 698 (2001)
- 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)
- bogon filter — /boh'gon fil'tr/ Any device, software or hardware, that limits or suppresses the flow and/or emission of bogons. "Engineering hacked a bogon filter between the Cray and the VAXen, and now we're getting fewer dropped packets." See also bogosity.
- 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.
- boning knife — a small kitchen knife having a narrow blade for boning meat or fish.