10-letter words containing f, a, b, e
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- footballer — a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forbearers — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- forebearer — Uncommon variant of forebear.
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- forseeable — Misspelling of foreseeable.
- fourbagger — home run.
- foxe basin — an ocean passage in Nunavut Territory, Canada, connected with Hudson Bay by the Foxe Channel.
- framboesia — yaws.
- free beach — a beach that permits nude bathing.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- fumé blanc — sauvignon blanc (sense 2)
- furbearers — Plural form of furbearer.
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- half-baked — insufficiently cooked.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- infallible — absolutely trustworthy or sure: an infallible rule.
- infeasible — not feasible; impracticable.
- infeasibly — In a manner that\u2019s not feasible.
- infibulate — to stitch together the vulva of (a girl or woman), often after a clitoridectomy, in order to prevent intercourse.
- inflamable — a former spelling of inflammable
- inflatable — capable of being inflated.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- left brace — (character) "". {ASCII character 123. Common names: open brace; left brace; left squiggly; left squiggly bracket/brace; left curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: opening brace. Rare: brace ("}" >INTERCAL: embrace ("}" = bracelet). Paired with right brace ("}").
- left brain — the left hemisphere of the human brain, which is believed to control linear and analytical thinking, decision-making, and language
- life table — mortality table.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- modifiable — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- notifiable — to inform (someone) or give notice to: to notify the police of a crime.
- obfuscated — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- obfuscates — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of obfuscate.
- offendable — to irritate, annoy, or anger; cause resentful displeasure in: Even the hint of prejudice offends me.
- offsetable — able to balance, counteract, or compensate for something else
- olfactible — Having an odor; capable of being smelled.
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- preferable — more desirable.
- preferably — more desirable.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- referrable — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- reformable — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refuelable — capable of being refuelled