10-letter words containing f, a, b, e
- beforehand — If you do something beforehand, you do it earlier than a particular event.
- benacerraf — Baruj. 1920–2011, Venezuelan-born US immunologist: shared the Nobel prize for physiology or medicine (1980) for his work on histocompatibility antigens
- benefactor — A benefactor is a person who helps a person or organization by giving them money.
- beneficial — Something that is beneficial helps people or improves their lives.
- benzofuran — a colourless insoluble aromatic liquid obtained from coal tar and used in the manufacture of synthetic resins. Formula: C8H6O
- beta fiber — a nonflammable glass fiber made into fabrics, insulation, etc.
- bifurcated — divided into two branches.
- biowarfare — biological warfare.
- blackfella — an Aborigine or Black person
- blanc fixe — barium sulfate
- blue flags — any North American plant of the genus Iris, especially I. versicolor : the state flower of Tennessee.
- blue flash — green flash.
- bold-faced — confident or impudent
- bona fides — Someone's bona fides are their good or sincere intentions.
- boniface i — Saint, died a.d. 422, pope 418–422.
- boniface v — died a.d. 625, pope 619–625.
- boot-faced — wearing a stern, disapproving expression
- brake fade — a gradual loss of braking power resulting from decreased friction between the lining and the drum or disc of the brake and usually caused by overheating.
- brake-fade — the decrease in efficiency of braking of a motor vehicle due to overheating of the brakes
- breadfruit — Breadfruit are large round fruit that grow on trees in the Pacific Islands and in tropical parts of America and that, when baked, look and feel like bread.
- breadknife — a knife, usually with a serrated blade, used for cutting slices from a loaf of bread
- breadstuff — any form of bread
- breakfront — (of a bookcase, bureau, etc) having a slightly projecting central section
- broadfaced — having a broad, wide face.
- brunfelsia — any of various shrubs or small trees belonging to the genus Brunfelsia, of the nightshade family, native to tropical America, having white or purple tubular or bell-shaped flowers.
- buffet car — a railway coach where light refreshments are served
- bufflehead — a small North American diving duck, Bucephala (or Glaucionetta) albeola: the male has black-and-white plumage and a fluffy head
- by default — If something happens by default, it happens only because something else which might have prevented it or changed it has not happened.
- capable of — susceptible of; admitting of; open to
- chiffarobe — Alternative form of chifforobe.
- clofibrate — a medication used in the treatment of heart disease
- coffee bag — a small bag containing ground coffee beans, infused to make coffee
- coffee bar — A coffee bar is a small café where non-alcoholic drinks and snacks are sold.
- conferable — Alternative spelling of conferrable.
- confidable — Able to be entrusted with secrets, or private information.
- confinable — to enclose within bounds; limit or restrict: She confined her remarks to errors in the report. Confine your efforts to finishing the book.
- confusable — Able or liable to be confused with something else.
- confutable — (archaic, or, formal) That can be confuted, i.e. shown to be false; disprovable.
- craft beer — a specialized beer produced in limited quantities by a small, usually independent brewery
- craft brew — an all-malt or nearly all-malt specialty beer usually brewed in a small, regional brewery.
- deaf-blind — of or relating to a person who is both deaf and blind.
- defeasible — (of an estate or interest in land) capable of being defeated or rendered void
- defeatable — (rare) Capable of being defeated.
- defendable — Capable of being defended.
- deferrable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- deformable — to mar the natural form or shape of; put out of shape; disfigure: In cases where the drug was taken during pregnancy, its effects deformed the infants.
- defrayable — Capable of being defrayed.
- draft beer — beer drawn or available to be drawn from a cask or barrel.
- draft tube — the flared passage leading vertically from a water turbine to its tailrace.
- duffel bag — a large, cylindrical bag, especially of canvas, for carrying personal belongings, orginally used by military personnel.