13-letter words containing b, f, i
- flying 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.
- foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- for the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
- forbiddenness — a past participle of forbid.
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- frederiksberg — a city in E Denmark: a part of Copenhagen.
- frederiksburg — borough on Zealand island, Denmark: suburb of Copenhagen: pop. 88,000
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- free variable — (in functional calculus) a variable occurring in a sentential function and not within the scope of any quantifier containing it.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- fulbright act — an act of Congress (1946) by which funds derived chiefly from the sale of U.S. surplus property abroad are made available to U.S. citizens for study, research, and teaching in foreign countries as well as to foreigners to engage in similar activities in the U.S.
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- goldfish bowl — round glass container for goldfish
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
- ineffableness — The quality or state of being ineffable.
- infallibilism — the principle of papal infallibility
- infallibility — Sometimes, infallibleness. the quality of being infallible, or of being absolutely trustworthy: He believed in the infallibility of his leadership.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- inflatability — The quality of being inflatable.
- inflexibility — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
- influenceable — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
- irrefrangible — not to be broken or violated; inviolable: an irrefrangible rule of etiquette.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).