12-letter words containing b, u, f, e
- doubtfulness — of uncertain outcome or result.
- duke of alba — Duke of, Alva, Fernando Alvarez de Toledo.
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- fabulousness — almost impossible to believe; incredible.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- found object — a natural or manufactured object that is perceived as being aesthetically satisfying and exhibited as such.
- frame buffer — (hardware) Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
- freezer burn — light-colored spots that appear on frozen food, caused by loss of surface moisture due to faulty packaging or improper freezing methods.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- fuzzy subset — In fuzzy logic, a fuzzy subset F of a set S is defined by a "membership function" which gives the degree of membership of each element of S belonging to F.
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- non-fungible — (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.
- of substance — wealthy
- opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- subinfection — an act or fact of infecting; state of being infected.