9-letter words containing b, a, f
- farm belt — an area or region noted principally for farming.
- farm-bike — a motorcycle built for off-road travel
- fast buck — money made easily or quickly and sometimes unscrupulously: He speculated briefly in the commodities market in the hope of making a fast buck.
- fastbacks — Plural form of fastback.
- fastballs — Plural form of fastball.
- fatigable — susceptible to fatigue.
- fava bean — a plant, Vicia faba, native to the Old World, bearing large pods containing edible seeds.
- favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- favorably — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- febricula — a slight and short fever, especially when of obscure causation.
- feedbacks — Plural form of feedback.
- fernbrake — a thicket or dense growth of ferns.
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- feuerbach — Ludwig Andreas [ahn-drey-uh s,, an-;; German ahn-drey-ahs] /ɑnˈdreɪ əs,, æn-;; German ɑnˈdreɪ ɑs/ (Show IPA), 1804–72, German philosopher.
- fiberglas — finespun filaments of glass made into yarn that is woven into textiles, used in woolly masses as insulation, and pressed and molded as plastic material
- fibonacci — Leonardo (leoˈnardo), also called Leonardo of Pisa. ?1170–?1250, Italian mathematician: popularized the decimal system in Europe
- fibrillar — a small or fine fiber or filament.
- fightable — able or ready to fight
- fightback — A fightback is an effort made by a person or group of people to get back into a strong position when they seem likely to lose something such as an election or an important sports match.
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- file band — an endless steel band to which straight lengths of steel files are attached, used on a band mill or band saw.
- filtabyte — (networking, hardware) An Ethernet controller card made by LRT based on the LANCE and SIA. It uses DMA. Its Ethernet address can be changed by software.
- filtrable — filterable.
- fimbriate — Also, fimbriated. Botany, Zoology. having a border of hairs or filiform processes.
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- fireballs — Plural form of fireball.
- fireblast — A fiery explosion.
- fireboard — a board used to close a fireplace.
- firebrand — a piece of burning wood or other material.
- firebrats — Plural form of firebrat.
- firebreak — a strip of plowed or cleared land made to check the spread of a prairie or forest fire.
- firozabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh state, N central India.
- fish ball — a fried ball (or patty) of minced fish, often mixed with mashed potatoes
- fish bass — a bast fibre bag for holding an angler's catch
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flabagast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flabellum — a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
- flambeaux — a flaming torch.
- flammable — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- flappable — easily upset or confused, especially under stress.
- flareback — a blast of flame that sometimes issues from the breech of a large gun or cannon when it is opened after firing.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flat back — a book spine presenting a completely flat surface.
- flat bond — a bond that is traded without accrued interest as part of the price.
- flatboats — Plural form of flatboat.