11-letter words containing f, a, b
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- fault block — a mass of rock bounded on at least two opposite sides by faults.
- fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fibrination — (medicine) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
- fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
- fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- field label — a descriptive word or phrase for a field in a record, such as 'surname', 'postcode', etc
- fimbriating — Present participle of fimbriate.
- fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- financeable — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- findability — (information science) The quality of a particular object being locatable.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- fishability — The quality or degree of being fishable.
- fissionable — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- fixing bath — a solution containing one or more chemical compounds that is used, in fixing, to dissolve unexposed silver halides. It sometimes has an additive to stop the action of developer
- flabagasted — Alternative form of flabbergasted.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flamboyance — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyancy — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
- flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
- flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
- flatterable — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- flea beetle — any leaf beetle of the genera Haltica, Epitrix, etc., the various species of which have the rear legs adapted for jumping.
- flea-bitten — bitten by a flea or fleas.
- flitch beam — a beam composed of planks bolted together side by side and often reinforced with a plate of iron or steel.
- floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
- flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
- foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
- foam-backed — having a backing made of foam rubber
- footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
- footballist — Lb dated A football player.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot