10-letter words containing b, i, f, r
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbidding — grim; unfriendly; hostile; sinister: his forbidding countenance.
- 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.
- forgivably — In a forgivable way.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- formidably — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- forthbring — (obsolete) To bring forth; bring out; produce.
- framboesia — yaws.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- 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.
- frog's-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frostbites — Plural form of frostbite.
- fruit beer — a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- furbishing — Present participle of furbish.
- god forbid — If you say God forbid, you are expressing your hope that something will not happen.
- 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
- j-bar lift — a ski lift having a J -shaped bar against which a skier leans in an upright position while being pulled up the slope.
- koobi fora — an archaeological locality on the northeastern side of Lake Rudolf, in northern Kenya, yielding important early hominid fossils and some of the oldest hominid areas with stone tools, bone food waste, and possible evidence of fire use, dating from one to two million years ago.
- left brain — the left hemisphere of the human brain, which is believed to control linear and analytical thinking, decision-making, and language
- microfiber — a very fine polyester fiber, weighing less than one denier per filament, used especially for clothing.
- microfibre — Alternative spelling of microfiber.
- morbifical — Alternative form of morbific.
- myofibrils — Plural form of myofibril.
- nonfibrous — Not fibrous.
- nubiferous — cloud-bringing, cloud-bearing, or full of cloud
- obpyriform — inversely pear-shaped; pear-shaped with the narrow end at the base.
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- profitably — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- rabbitfish — a puffer, Lagocephalus laevigatus.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- refuse bin — a bin for the disposal of rubbish and waste
- ribbonfish — any of several marine fishes of the families Trachipteridae, Regalicidae, and Lophotidae, having a long, compressed, ribbonlike body.
- riboflavin — a vitamin B complex factor appearing as an orange-yellow, crystalline compound, C 1 7 H 2 0 N 4 O 6 , derived from ribose, essential for growth, found in milk, fresh meat, eggs, leafy vegetables, etc., or made synthetically, and used in enriching flour, in vitamin preparations, and in treating facial lesions.
- rifle bird — any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.
- rifle butt — the end of the stock of a rifle
- sebiferous — producing or carrying a fatty, oily, or waxlike substance
- subfebrile — pertaining to or marked by a temperature slightly above normal.
- subfertile — less than normally fertile
- subofficer — a person who holds a position of rank or authority in the army, navy, air force, or any similar organization, especially one who holds a commission.
- t-bar lift — a ski lift having an upside-down T -shaped bar against which two skiers may lean while being pulled uphill.