10-letter words containing b, e, r, f
- 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.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- 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.
- 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.
- furbearers — Plural form of furbearer.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- 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-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.
- inferrible — Obsolete form of inferable.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- interfibre — occurring or situated between two or more fibres
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- 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
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- microfiber — a very fine polyester fiber, weighing less than one denier per filament, used especially for clothing.
- microfibre — Alternative spelling of microfiber.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- number off — to call out or cause to call out one's number or place in a sequence, esp in a rank of soldiers