9-letter words containing f, a, b
- bass clef — the clef that establishes F a fifth below middle C on the fourth line of the staff
- baud barf — (jargon) /bawd barf/ The garbage one gets on the display screen when using a modem connection with some protocol setting (especially line speed) incorrect, or when someone picks up a voice extension on the same line, or when really bad line noise disrupts the connection. Baud barf is not completely random, by the way; hackers with a lot of serial-line experience can usually tell whether the device at the other end is expecting a higher or lower speed than the terminal is set to. *Really* experienced ones can identify particular speeds.
- beadflush — (of paneling) having panels flush with their stiles and rails and surrounded with a flush bead.
- beakerful — the amount of liquid a beaker will hold
- beam fill — material, as concrete, for filling spaces between beams or joists in or on top of a masonry wall.
- beanfeast — A beanfeast is a party or other social event.
- beardfish — any of several fishes of the family Polymyxiidae, found in the deeper waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, having a pair of long barbels under the chin.
- beatified — to make blissfully happy.
- beatifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of beatify.
- beautiful — A beautiful person is very attractive to look at.
- beautyful — Misspelling of beautiful.
- beccafico — any of various European songbirds, esp warblers of the genus Sylvia, eaten as a delicacy in Italy and other countries
- beef road — a road used for transporting cattle
- beefcakes — Plural form of beefcake.
- beefeater — Beefeaters are guards at the Tower of London. They wear a uniform made in the style of the sixteenth century.
- beefsteak — Beefsteak is steak.
- befalling — A happening; occurrence; chance; event.
- belafonte — Harry, born 1922, U.S. singer and actor.
- bifarious — having parts arranged in two rows on either side of a central axis
- bifocaled — wearing bifocals
- bifoliate — having only two leaves
- bifurcate — If something such as a line or path bifurcates or is bifurcated, it divides into two parts which go in different directions.
- biosafety — the precautions taken to control the cultivation and distribution of genetically modified crops and products
- bird farm — an aircraft carrier.
- bisulfate — an acid sulfate containing the monovalent negative radical HSO4
- bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
- black fly — any small blackish stout-bodied dipterous fly of the family Simuliidae, which sucks the blood of man, mammals, and birds
- black fog — (in Cape Cod, Mass.) a dense fog.
- black fox — a red fox in a color phase in which its fur is mostly black.
- blackface — a performer made up to imitate a Black person
- blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
- blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
- blackfoot — a member of a group of Native American peoples formerly living in the northwestern Plains
- blast off — When a space rocket blasts off, it leaves the ground at the start of its journey.
- blue flag — an award given to a seaside resort that meets EU standards of cleanliness of beaches and purity of water in bathing areas
- bluffable — able to be achieved through or influenced by bluffing
- bold face — a weight of type characterized by thick heavy lines, as the entry words in this dictionary
- bold-face — type or print that has thick, heavy lines, used for emphasis, headings, etc. This is a sample of boldface.
- boldfaced — impudent or forward in manner
- bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
- book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
- bookcraft — literary skill; authorship.
- box frame — Architecture. a monolithic reinforced-concrete structure having walls and floors in the form of slabs.
- brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
- brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
- brainfuck — (language) An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
- bran loaf — a rectangular cake whose ingredients include bran and dried fruit
- brantford — a city in central Canada, in SW Ontario. Pop: 86 417 (2001)
- break off — If part of something breaks off or if you break it off, it comes off or is removed by force.
- breakfast — Breakfast is the first meal of the day. It is usually eaten in the early part of the morning.