9-letter words containing f, b, i
- furbisher — One who furbishes; especially, a sword cutler, who finishes sword blades and similar weapons.
- furbishes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of furbish.
- futabatei — Shimei [shee-mey] /ʃiˈmeɪ/ (Show IPA), (Tatsunosuke Hasegawa) 1864–1909, Japanese author.
- globefish — puffer (def 2).
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- inaffable — Not affable; reserved in social intercourse.
- ineffable — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- ineffably — incapable of being expressed or described in words; inexpressible: ineffable joy.
- inferable — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- inferably — to derive by reasoning; conclude or judge from premises or evidence: They inferred his displeasure from his cool tone of voice.
- infusible — capable of being infused.
- jiffy bag — a thickly padded but light envelope in which articles such as books are placed for protection in the post
- knife box — a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
- leafbirds — Plural form of leafbird.
- libriform — (of a fibre of woody tissue) elongated and having a pitted thickened cell wall
- life belt — a beltlike life preserver.
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeblood — the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift bolt — an eyebolt, as on a yardarm, to which a topping lift is secured.
- 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).
- misbelief — erroneous belief; false opinion.
- myofibril — a contractile fibril of skeletal muscle, composed mainly of actin and myosin.
- noble fir — a fir, Abies procera, of the northwestern U.S., which may grow to a height of 250 feet (76 meters).
- nonbelief — (religion) Failure to believe; lack of religion.
- objectify — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- overbrief — too brief
- refinable — to bring to a fine or a pure state; free from impurities: to refine metal, sugar, or petroleum.
- refurbish — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- riflebird — any of several birds of paradise of Australia, having a long bill, dark plumage, and elaborate courtship displays.
- sablefish — a large, blackish food fish, Anoplopoma fimbria, inhabiting waters of the North Pacific.
- 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.
- shift bid — a bid in a suit different from the suit just bid by one's partner.
- shiftable — able or designed to be shifted, changed, or removed: shiftable furniture.
- sniffable — capable of being sniffed
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- sub-chief — the head or leader of an organized body of people; the person highest in authority: the chief of police.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- subinfeud — a grant by a feudal tenant of land to a further tenant
- suboffice — a branch or local office of a business
- syllabify — to form or divide into syllables.
- tubificid — a threadlike aquatic annelid worm of the family Tubificidae
- unbriefed — not instructed or briefed
- unfixable — to repair; mend.
- unifiable — capable of being unified.
- zebrafish — a small, slender freshwater fish, Brachydanio rerio, having luminous bluish-black and silvery-gold horizontal stripes: popular in home aquariums.