8-letter words containing f, b, a
- fairborn — a city in W Ohio, near Dayton.
- faizabad — a city in E Uttar Pradesh, in N India: the ancient site Ayodhya, sacred to the Hindus, is nearby.
- fallback — an act or instance of falling back.
- fallible — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- fallibly — In a fallible manner.
- faltboat — a small boat having a collapsible wooden frame covered with waterproof cloth or plastic.
- fan base — the fans of a celebrity, team, media franchise, etc., when considered collectively: The fan base was crushed when the team moved to a different city. The studio marketed the sequels heavily to the franchise’s established fan base.
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- fan club — a club enthusiastically devoted to a movie star or other celebrity or to a sports team.
- farebeat — to illegally avoid paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farmable — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- fastback — a form of back for an automobile body consisting of a single, unbroken convex curve from the top to the rear bumper.
- fastball — a pitch thrown at or near a pitcher's maximum velocity.
- fat body — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- fat lamb — a lamb bred for its tender meat, esp for export trade
- faubourg — a suburb or a quarter just outside a French city.
- faxa bay — an inlet of the Atlantic Ocean on the SW coast of Iceland.
- faxbacks — Plural form of faxback.
- feasible — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feasibly — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- february — the second month of the year, ordinarily containing 28 days, but containing 29 days in leap years. Abbreviation: Feb.
- feebates — Plural form of feebate.
- feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- feedable — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- feedbags — Plural form of feedbag.
- feel bad — feel guilty
- feel-bad — causing or characterized by feelings of unhappiness or depression
- fellable — capable of being or fit to be felled.
- fern bar — a stylish bar or tavern conspicuously decorated with ferns and other greenery.
- fibranne — viscose rayon made from spun yarn.
- fibratus — (of a cloud) hairlike or striated in composition.
- fibrilla — a fibril.
- fibromas — Plural form of fibroma.
- fileable — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- fillable — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- filmable — noting or pertaining to a story or to a literary work readily adaptable to motion picture form.
- fimbriae — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- fimbrial — Of or pertaining to the fimbriae.
- finbacks — Plural form of finback.
- findable — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fineable — subject to a fine; punishable by a fine.
- fireable — Alternative form of firable.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- fireband — A band or bond forged by fire.
- firebase — an artillery base, especially one set up quickly to support advancing troops or to forestall enemy advances.
- fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
- firebrat — a bristletail, Thermobia domestica, that lives in areas around furnaces, boilers, steampipes, etc.
- fishable — that may be fished in: nonpolluted, fishable streams.