9-letter words containing f, a, s, b
- firebacks — Plural form of fireback.
- fireballs — Plural form of fireball.
- fireblast — A fiery explosion.
- firebrats — Plural form of firebrat.
- fish ball — a fried ball (or patty) of minced fish, often mixed with mashed potatoes
- fish bass — a bast fibre bag for holding an angler's catch
- fishyback — a cargo supply chain involving container transfer from lorry to ship
- flabagast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
- flash mob — a group of people mobilized by social media to meet in a public place for the purpose of doing an unusual or entertaining activity of short duration: The flash mob brought wide smiles to the faces of commuters waiting for their train.
- flashback — a device in the narrative of a motion picture, novel, etc., by which an event or scene taking place before the present time in the narrative is inserted into the chronological structure of the work.
- flashbang — Alternative form of flash-bang.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flatboats — Plural form of flatboat.
- fleabites — Plural form of fleabite.
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- foldboats — Plural form of foldboat.
- footballs — Plural form of football.
- footbaths — Plural form of footbath.
- forebears — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
- forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
- frambesia — yaws.
- framboise — raspberry.
- freebased — Simple past tense and past participle of freebase.
- freebaser — One who freebases.
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- funabashi — a city in E central Honshu, Japan, on Tokyo Bay.
- goofballs — Plural form of goofball.
- halfbacks — Plural form of halfback.
- halfbeaks — Plural form of halfbeak.
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift-slab — noting or pertaining to a technique of constructing multistory buildings in which all horizontal slabs are cast at ground level and, when ready, are raised into position by hydraulic jacks.
- misbefall — (transitive, obsolete) Of an event, to happen unfortunately to (a person).
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- salt beef — beef that has been preserved in salt
- self-bias — voltage developed on an electrode in a vacuum tube circuit as a result of current flowing through a resistor in a lead to the cathode or to a grid.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- softboard — a soft, porous particle board.
- sub-frame — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- surf boat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- surfboard — a long, narrow board on which a person stands or lies prone in surfboarding.
- syllabify — to form or divide into syllables.
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.