10-letter words containing o, f
- belly-flop — to do a belly flop, as in diving or sledding.
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- bernstorff — Count Johann-Heinrich [yoh-hahn-hahyn-rikh] /ˈyoʊ hɑnˈhaɪn rɪx/ (Show IPA), 1862–1939, German diplomat.
- bettendorf — a city in E Iowa.
- better off — in more favourable circumstances, esp financially
- better-off — being in better circumstances, especially economically: Only the better-off nations can afford to send probes into space.
- bibliofilm — a microfilm used especially in libraries to photograph the pages of valuable or much-used books.
- bifluoride — an acid salt of hydrofluoric acid containing the group HF 2 -, as ammonium bifluoride, NH 4 HF 2.
- big-footed — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- bigfooting — a prominent or influential person, especially a journalist or news analyst.
- billfolder — billfold.
- biofouling — the degradation of an artificial surface by biological growth
- biofuelled — running on biofuel
- biomagnify — to undergo biological magnification.
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- blockflote — a recorder.
- blood feud — A blood feud is a long-lasting, bitter disagreement between two or more groups of people, particularly family groups. Blood feuds often involve members of each group murdering or fighting with members of the other.
- blood flow — the flow of blood through blood vessels around the body
- bloomfield — Leonard. 1887–1949, US linguist, influential for his strictly scientific and descriptive approach to comparative linguistics; author of Language (1933)
- board foot — a unit of board measure: the cubic content of a piece of wood one foot square and one inch thick
- boastfully — given to or characterized by boasting.
- bobby calf — an unweaned calf culled for slaughter
- body fluid — any of various types of fluid found in the body of a human or animal, as blood or urine.
- body forth — to give shape or form to
- bofors gun — an automatic single- or double-barrelled anti-aircraft gun with a 40 millimetre bore
- bogon flux — /boh'gon fluhks/ A measure of a supposed field of bogosity emitted by a speaker, measured by a bogometer; as a speaker starts to wander into increasing bogosity a listener might say "Warning, warning, bogon flux is rising". See quantum bogodynamics.
- böhm flute — a type of flute in which the holes are covered with keys; the standard type of modern flute
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- bone felon — felon2 .
- bonhoeffer — Dietrich (ˈdiːtrɪç). 1906–45, German Lutheran theologian: executed by the Nazis
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- bound form — a linguistic form that never occurs by itself but always as part of some larger construction, as -ed in seated. Compare free form (def 2).
- box office — The box office in a theatre, cinema, or concert hall is the place where the tickets are sold.
- box-office — of or relating to the box office or to the business and commercial aspects of the theater: a box-office window; box-office receipts; a box-office attraction.
- branch off — A road or path that branches off from another one starts from it and goes in a slightly different direction. If you branch off somewhere, you change the direction in which you are going.
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- brook farm — an experimental communist community established by writers and scholars in West Roxbury, Massachusetts, from 1841 to 1847
- brookfield — a city in SE Wisconsin, near Milwaukee.
- broomfield — a city in N central Colorado.
- broomstaff — a broomstick
- brownfield — Brownfield land is land in a town or city where houses or factories have been built in the past, but which is not being used at the present time.
- budget for — If you budget for something, you take account of it when you are deciding how much you can afford to spend on different things.
- buffaloing — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buffo bass — (in Italian opera of the 18th century) a bass singer who performs such a comic part
- buffoonery — Buffoonery is foolish behaviour that makes you laugh.