11-letter words containing b, n, f
- funambulate — to walk on a tightrope
- funambulism — The art of walking on a tightrope or a slack-rope.
- funambulist — a tightrope walker.
- funded debt — a debt, as in the form of bonds, having a long period of maturity.
- fungibility — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- furbelowing — Present participle of furbelow.
- fusion bomb — hydrogen bomb.
- ground beef — meat: minced beef
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- in the buff — naked
- indefinable — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- indefinably — not definable; not readily identified, described, analyzed, or determined.
- infatigable — (obsolete) indefatigable.
- infibulated — Simple past tense and past participle of infibulate.
- inflammable — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
- inflammably — In an inflammable manner.
- inflatables — Plural form of inflatable.
- inflectable — (linguistics) That can be inflected.
- infrangible — that cannot be broken or separated; unbreakable: infrangible moral strength.
- infrangibly — In an infrangible manner.
- infundibula — Plural form of infundibulum.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- misbefallen — Simple past tense and past participle of misbefall.
- nerve fiber — a process, axon, or dendrite of a nerve cell.
- nerve fibre — a threadlike extension of a nerve cell; axon
- neurofibril — a fibril of a nerve cell.
- new bedford — a seaport in SE Massachusetts: formerly a chief whaling port.
- nonflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- nullifiable — Able, or allowed to be nullified.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
- out-of-band — 1. (communications) The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4. (software) Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
- oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
- refrangible — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- rubefacient — causing redness of the skin, as a medicinal application.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- self-binder — binder (def 5b).
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- subaffluent — between poor and affluent
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- subfreezing — below the freezing point.
- subinfluent — an organism that has a lesser effect than an influent on the ecological processes within a community.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
- unbashfully — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- unbeautiful — lacking beauty; not beautiful
- unbefitting — not befitting to a person; not appropriate or suitable
- unbeneficed — lacking a benefice