12-letter words containing b, i, f
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- fission bomb — atomic bomb.
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- forward bias — a voltage applied to a circuit or device, esp a semiconductor device, in the direction that produces the larger current
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- francophobia — the phenomenon of hating French speakers, culture, or people
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully