9-letter words containing b, i, l, f
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeblood — the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift bolt — an eyebolt, as on a yardarm, to which a topping lift is secured.
- lift-slab — noting or pertaining to a technique of constructing multistory buildings in which all horizontal slabs are cast at ground level and, when ready, are raised into position by hydraulic jacks.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
- myofibril — a contractile fibril of skeletal muscle, composed mainly of actin and myosin.
- noble fir — a fir, Abies procera, of the northwestern U.S., which may grow to a height of 250 feet (76 meters).
- nonbelief — (religion) Failure to believe; lack of religion.
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- riflebird — any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- syllabify — to form or divide into syllables.
- unfixable — to repair; mend.
- unifiable — capable of being unified.