10-letter words containing b, a, t, f
- floatboard — paddle1 (def 6).
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- footballer — a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
- footboards — Plural form of footboard.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- fort bragg — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in S central North Carolina NW of Fayetteville.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- full blast — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- infibulate — to stitch together the vulva of (a girl or woman), often after a clitoridectomy, in order to prevent intercourse.
- inflatable — capable of being inflated.
- j-bar lift — a ski lift having a J -shaped bar against which a skier leans in an upright position while being pulled up the slope.
- lamb shift — the small difference in energy between two states of the hydrogen atom detected by Willis Eugene Lamb (1913–2008), the US physicist
- left brace — (character) "". {ASCII character 123. Common names: open brace; left brace; left squiggly; left squiggly bracket/brace; left curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: opening brace. Rare: brace ("}" >INTERCAL: embrace ("}" = bracelet). Paired with right brace ("}").
- left brain — the left hemisphere of the human brain, which is believed to control linear and analytical thinking, decision-making, and language
- life table — mortality table.
- notifiable — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- obfuscator — Agent noun of obfuscate; one who obfuscates.
- offsetable — able to balance, counteract, or compensate for something else
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- stable fly — a blood-sucking muscid fly, Stomoxys calcitrans, that attacks man and domestic animals
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- subsulfate — a basic salt of sulfuric acid.
- t-bar lift — a ski lift having an upside-down T -shaped bar against which two skiers may lean while being pulled uphill.
- turboshaft — a gas turbine used to deliver shaft power, as to a helicopter rotor.
- unboastful — not boastful
- unliftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- uplift bra — a brassiere for lifting and supporting the breasts
- wifebeater — One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats one’s wife, or a husband prone to violence.