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13-letter words containing o, n, f

  • baron of beef — a cut of beef consisting of a double sirloin joined at the backbone
  • basic fortran — (language)   A subset of Fortran.
  • bay of bengal — a wide arm of the Indian Ocean, between India and Myanmar
  • 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
  • be one's life — If you say that something or someone is your life, you are emphasizing that they are extremely important to you.
  • be spoken for — If a person or thing is spoken for or has been spoken for, someone has claimed them or asked for them, so no-one else can have them.
  • beatification — a beatifying or being beatified
  • beef bouillon — a broth made either by straining water in which bits of lean beef have been cooked or by dissolving beef extract in hot water.
  • 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.
  • beyond belief — You use beyond belief to emphasize that something is true to a very great degree or that it happened to a very great degree.
  • bilinear form — a function or functional of two variables that is linear with respect to each variable when the other variable is held fixed.
  • bill of entry — a list of goods received at a customs house for export or import
  • 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.
  • boarding fees — fees paid for boarding at a school
  • bonfire night — Bonfire Night is the popular name for Guy Fawkes Night.
  • boniface viii — original name Benedict Caetano. ?1234–1303, pope (1294–1303)
  • bottomfishing — to fish with a weighted line for fish that feed close to the bottom.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • buffalo wings — spicy fried segments of chicken wings, usually served with celery sticks and a sauce of blue cheese
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • 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.
  • by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
  • 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
  • calcification — the process of calcifying or becoming calcified
  • calf's tongue — a molding having pendent, tonguelike members in relief against a flat or molded surface.
  • calorifacient — (of foods) producing heat.
  • 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.
  • catch oneself — to hold oneself back abruptly from saying or doing something
  • 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)
  • cause offence — If you cause offence or give offence to someone, you say or do something rude which upsets or embarrasses them.
  • certification — a document attesting the truth of a fact or statement
  • chloroforming — Present participle of chloroform.
  • chylification — the process of turning into chyle
  • chymification — the process of turning into chyme
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