13-letter words containing b, i, f, o
- by definition — If you say that something has a particular quality by definition, you mean that it has this quality simply because of what it is.
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- codifiability — the quality of being codifiable
- commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
- confabulating — Present participle of confabulate.
- confabulation — the act of confabulating; conversation; discussion.
- confiscatable — confiscable
- coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
- cowboy outfit — an outfit consisting of a cowboy hat, fringed waistcoat, trousers, scarf etc, worn either by children or adults
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- fabric ribbon — a typewriter ribbon made of inked material
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- fishbone fern — a common Australian fern, Nephrolepsis cordifolia, having fronds with many pinnae
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- flooring brad — a brad having a very small head, made in lengths from 2 to 4 inches (5 to 10 cm).
- flying boxcar — a large airplane designed to carry cargo.
- 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.
- 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
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.