9-letter words containing f
- bound for — going or intending to go; on the way to; destined (usually followed by for): The train is bound for Denver.
- bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
- bow front — swell front.
- bow-front — having a front with a convex curve
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- box-fresh — unused or unspoiled; straight from the packaging
- boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.
- breathful — full of breath; living
- briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
- briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
- brimfully — in a brimfull manner
- bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
- bromoform — a heavy colourless liquid substance with a sweetish taste and an odour resembling that of chloroform. Formula: CHBr3
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- brush off — If someone brushes you off when you speak to them, they refuse to talk to you or be nice to you.
- brush-off — a refusal to talk or listen to someone; abrupt or final dismissal or rebuff.
- brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
- bucketful — A bucketful of something is the amount contained in a bucket.
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- buffering — temporary storage of data
- buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
- bull calf — a male calf
- bullfight — A bullfight is a public entertainment in which people fight and kill bulls. Bullfights take place in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
- bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
- bully-off — a method by which a game is restarted after a stoppage. Two opposing players stand with the ball between them and alternately strike their sticks together and against the ground three times before trying to hit the ball
- bumfuzzle — to confuse
- bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- bushelful — an amount equal to the capacity of a bushel.
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- butterfly — A butterfly is an insect with large colourful wings and a thin body.
- by way of — You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction.
- c & f — cost and freight
- cacafuego — a person with a fiery temper
- cactiform — resembling a cactus
- caddisfly — any small mothlike insect of the order Trichoptera, having two pairs of hairy wings and aquatic larvae (caddisworms)
- cafe noir — black coffee
- cafeteria — A cafeteria is a restaurant where you choose your food from a counter and take it to your table after paying for it. Cafeterias are usually found in public buildings such as hospitals and stores.