10-letter words containing b, e, f
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flower bug — any of several bugs of the family Anthocoridae that live on flowers and are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- flue brush — a brush used for cleaning soot from chimneys
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- fly-bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fodderbeet — sugar beet used as fodder.
- followable — to come after in sequence, order of time, etc.: The speech follows the dinner.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- foolbegged — foolish
- 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.
- footbridge — a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forbearers — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- forebearer — Uncommon variant of forebear.
- forebelief — A previous belief.
- forebitter — a sea shanty
- foreboding — a prediction; portent.
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- forseeable — Misspelling of foreseeable.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fourbagger — home run.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- framboesia — yaws.
- free beach — a beach that permits nude bathing.
- free-blown — (of glass) blown and shaped manually and without the use of a mold. Compare blown-molded, offhand (def 5).
- free-bored — (of a rifle) having a bore that is not rifled within a short distance of the breech, so that a fired cartridge travels about 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) before being engaged by the lands, thus reducing initial high pressures.
- freebooter — a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
- french bed — a bed without posts, terminating in identical outward-curving rolls at the head and the foot.
- 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.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- frostbites — Plural form of frostbite.
- fruit beer — a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.
- fumé blanc — sauvignon blanc (sense 2)
- funnel-web — any large poisonous black spider of the family Dipluridae, constructing funnel-shaped webs
- funny bone — the part of the elbow where the ulnar nerve passes by the internal condyle of the humerus, which when struck causes a peculiar, tingling sensation in the arm and hand; crazy bone.
- furbearers — Plural form of furbearer.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- fussbudget — a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person.
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- if need be — If you say that you will do something, especially an extreme action, if need be, you mean that you will do if it is necessary.
- infallible — absolutely trustworthy or sure: an infallible rule.
- infeasible — not feasible; impracticable.