9-letter words containing b, e, f
- befuddled — confused, muddled, perplexed
- behoveful — useful; of benefit
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- bell frog — any of several tree frogs having a bell-like call.
- benefited — something that is advantageous or good; an advantage: He explained the benefits of public ownership of the postal system.
- benefiter — a person who derives benefit
- beni suef — city in NE Egypt, on the Nile: pop. 152,000
- beni-suef — a city in NW Egypt on the Nile River.
- beresford — Bruce. born 1940, Australian film director. His films include The Adventures of Barry McKenzie (1972), Breaker Morant (1980), Driving Miss Daisy (1989) and Evelyn (2002)
- biddeford — a city in SW Maine.
- bielefeld — a city in Germany, in NE North Rhine-Westphalia: food, textiles. Pop: 328 452 (2003 est)
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- biofibres — vegetable, animal, or mineral fibres existing in nature which are used by man
- biofouler — an animal that obstructs or pollutes the environment
- biofueled — running on biofuel
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- bird feed — seeds or other food given to birds.
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bisulfide — disulfide
- bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
- bit field — (data) Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- blue funk — a state of great terror or loss of nerve
- bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
- blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
- bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
- bob-fosse — Robert Louis ("Bob") 1927–87, U.S. dancer, choreographer, and theater and film director.
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- bonne foi — sincerity.
- bookshelf — A bookshelf is a shelf on which you keep books.
- born-free — (in South Africa) a person who was born or grew up after the end of the Apartheid era
- bottleful — the amount a bottle will hold
- 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.
- 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