9-letter words containing f, a, b
- breathful — full of breath; living
- briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
- broadleaf — any tobacco plant having broad leaves, used esp in making cigars
- broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
- brown fat — tissue composed of a type of fat cell that dissipates as heat most of the energy released when food is oxidized; brown adipose tissue. It is present in hibernating animals and human babies and is thought to be important in adult weight control
- buffaloed — any of several large wild oxen of the family Bovidae. Compare bison, Cape buffalo, water buffalo.
- bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
- bull calf — a male calf
- bushcraft — ability and experience in matters concerned with living in the bush
- butterfat — the fatty substance of milk from which butter is made, consisting of a mixture of glycerides, mainly butyrin, olein, and palmitin
- by way of — You use by way of when you are explaining the purpose of something that you have said or are about to say. For example, if you say something by way of an introduction, you say it as an introduction.
- cambiform — resembling a cambium
- club sofa — a heavily upholstered sofa having solid sides and a low back.
- clubfaces — Plural form of clubface.
- confabbed — Simple past tense and past participle of confab.
- cube farm — an office which is divided up by mid-height partitions to create separate work spaces
- cybercafe — A cybercafé is a café where people can pay to use the Internet.
- deafblind — unable to hear or see
- debateful — quarrelsome
- deferable — capable of being deferred or postponed: a deferrable project.
- defibrate — to break (wood, paper, garbage, etc.) into fibrous components; reduce to fibers.
- definable — Something that is definable can be described or identified.
- definably — to state or set forth the meaning of (a word, phrase, etc.): They disagreed on how to define “liberal.”.
- diabolify — (transitive) To ascribe diabolical qualities to; to change into, or represent as, a devil.
- draftable — Capable of being drafted.
- fabaceous — belonging to the Fabaceae, an alternative name for the plant family Leguminosae.
- fabianism — the theories of economic and social reform advocated by the Fabian Society.
- fabricant — a maker or manufacturer.
- fabricate — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- fabricius — Johan Christian [yoh-hahn kris-chuh n;; Danish yoh-hahn kris-tyahn] /ˈyoʊ hɑn ˈkrɪs tʃən;; Danish yoʊˈhɑn ˈkrɪs tyɑn/ (Show IPA), 1743–1808, Danish entomologist.
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- fabritius — Carel [kah-ruh l] /ˈkɑ rəl/ (Show IPA), 1622–54, Dutch painter: pupil of Rembrandt.
- fabulated — Simple past tense and past participle of fabulate.
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- fabulists — Plural form of fabulist.
- fade back — to move back from the line of scrimmage, as in order to throw a forward pass
- fahlbands — Plural form of fahlband.
- faidherbe — Louis Léon César. 1818–89, French soldier and governor of Senegal (1854–65); founder of Dakar
- fair ball — a batted ball that both lands and settles within the foul lines in the infield, or that is within the foul lines when bounding to the outfield past first or third base, or that first lands within the foul lines of the outfield or would if it were not caught or deflected.
- fairbanks — Charles Warren, 1852–1918, political leader: vice president of the U.S. 1905–09.
- fake book — a collection of lead sheets for musicians, especially a songbook of standards for use by jazz instrumentalists.
- fall back — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- fallbacks — Plural form of fallback.
- fallboard — the hinged covering that protects a piano keyboard when it is not being played.
- false bay — a bay in SW South Africa, near the Cape of Good Hope
- false rib — any of the lower five ribs on either side of the body, which are not directly attached to the sternum.
- fanciable — Sexually attractive.
- farcy bud — an ulcerated swelling, produced in farcy.
- faribault — a city in SE Minnesota.
- faridabad — an industrial city in Haryana, N India.