11-letter words containing a, t, b, r
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fibrination — (medicine) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fimbriating — Present participle of fimbriate.
- fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flatterable — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
- fracturable — Capable of being fractured.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- frigatebird — Any of five species of bird in the genus Fregata, the only genus in the family Fregatidae.
- from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
- futurebasic — (language) A BASIC compiler for the Macintosh.
- gangbusters — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- garbologist — the study of the material discarded by a society to learn what it reveals about social or cultural patterns.
- garment bag — a travel bag made of pliable, durable material with a handle and a zipper closure, designed to hang straight or fold double and used to carry suits, dresses, coats, or the like without crushing or wrinkling.
- garter belt — an undergarment of cloth or elastic, with attached garters, worn by women to hold up stockings.
- gas bracket — a metal pipe projecting from the wall of an apartment, used to support gas lamps and to supply them with gas
- gas turbine — a turbine utilizing the gaseous products of combustion.
- glabrescent — becoming glabrous.
- glastonbury — a borough of SW England, in whose vicinity the ruins of an important Iron Age lake village have been found and to which in folklore both King Arthur and Joseph of Arimathaea have been linked, the latter as the founder of the abbey there.
- glitterball — Synonym of mirrorball.
- goatsbeards — Plural form of goatsbeard.
- gradability — a measure of a truck's pulling power expressed as the steepest grade the truck can climb with a full load.
- gratifiable — to give pleasure to (a person or persons) by satisfying desires or humoring inclinations or feelings: Her praise will gratify all who worked so hard to earn it.
- great abaco — two islands (Great Abaco and Little Abaco) in the N Bahamas. 776 sq. mi. (2010 sq. km).
- great basin — a region in the Western U.S. that has no drainage to the ocean: includes most of Nevada and parts of Utah, California, Oregon, and Idaho. 210,000 sq. mi. (544,000 sq. km).
- ground bait — chum2 (def 1).
- gubernation — the act of governing or ruling
- gutter ball — a bowling ball that is rolled into one of the gutters and does not hit any pins.
- habilitator — to clothe or dress.
- hairbreadth — a very small space or distance: We escaped an accident by a hairsbreadth.
- halberstadt — a town in central Germany, in Saxony-Anhalt: industrial centre noted for its historic buildings. Pop: 40 014 (2003 est)
- halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
- halterbreak — to get (an animal) used to wearing a halter
- handbreadth — a unit of linear measure from 2½ to 4 inches (6.4 to 10 cm).
- hard by sth — If one thing is hard by another, it is very close to it.
- hard-bitten — tough; stubborn.