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9-letter words containing f, b, i

  • bisulfite — an acid sulfite containing the monovalent negative radical HSO3
  • bit field — (data)   Part of an item of data, storage location or message, identified as a certain number of contiguous bits starting at a certain bit position within the data. Bit position zero is usually the least significant bit. For example, in an ARM machine code instruction the four-bit field at bits 28 to 31 (the four most significant bits in the 32-bit word) is the "condition code".
  • bitchface — Also called resting bitchface, bitchy resting face, chronic bitchface. (especially of a woman) a facial expression that does not consciously express a particular emotion but that others perceive as scowling, threatening, etc.: I can’t help that I have resting bitchface. Her face naturally goes into a bitchface, but I promise she’s super friendly. I’m not angry, I just have chronic bitch face. Abbreviation: RBF. (especially of a woman) a deliberate facial expression of anger or disgust, often employed to appear unapproachable: I put on my bitchface when I ride the train so creepy guys don’t talk to me. It’s important to perfect your bitchface.
  • bitchfest — a malicious and spiteful discussion of people, events, etc
  • blackfire — a disease of tobacco, characterized by angular, dark lesions on the leaves, caused by a bacterium, Pseudomonas angulata.
  • blackfish — a minnow-like Alaskan freshwater fish, Dallia pectoralis, related to the pikes and thought to be able to survive prolonged freezing
  • blindfish — any of various small fishes, esp the cavefish, that have rudimentary or functionless eyes and occur in subterranean streams
  • blindfold — A blindfold is a strip of cloth that is tied over someone's eyes so that they cannot see.
  • blitheful — joyous, merry, or happy in disposition; glad; cheerful: Everyone loved her for her blithe spirit.
  • bluefield — a city in SW West Virginia.
  • blueshift — a shift in the spectral lines of a stellar spectrum towards the blue end of the visible region relative to the wavelengths of these lines in the terrestrial spectrum: a result of the Doppler effect caused by stars approaching the solar system
  • bona fide — If something or someone is bona fide, they are genuine or real.
  • bonne foi — sincerity.
  • bony fish — any fish of the class Osteichthyes, including most of the extant species, having a skeleton of bone rather than cartilage
  • book fair — a commercial event at which publishers exhibit and trade books
  • bountiful — A bountiful supply or amount of something pleasant is a large one.
  • boyfriend — Someone's boyfriend is a man or boy with whom they are having a romantic or sexual relationship.
  • brainfart — an idea that a person voices without much consideration, such as during a brainstorming session
  • brainfood — any foodstuff containing nutrients thought to promote brain function, such as oily fish which is rich in omega-3 oils
  • brainfuck — (language)   An eight-instruction esoteric programming language created by Urban Müller. His goal was apparently to create a Turing-complete language with the smallest compiler ever, for the Amiga OS 2.0. He eventually reduced his compiler to under 200 bytes. A Brainfuck program has a pointer that moves within an array of 30000 bytes, initially all set to zero. The pointer initially points to the beginning of this array. The language has eight commands, each of which is represented as a single character, and which can be expressed in terms of C as follows: > ==> ++p; < ==> --p; + ==> ++*p; - ==> --*p; . ==> putchar(*p); , ==> *p = getchar(); [ ==> while (*p) { ] ==> } Brian Raiter's Brainfuck page.
  • briefcase — A briefcase is a case used for carrying documents in.
  • briefless — (said of a barrister) without clients
  • brimfully — in a brimfull manner
  • bring off — If you bring off something difficult, you do it successfully.
  • broadwife — a female slave whose husband was owned by another master.
  • bromfield — Louis, 1896–1956, U.S. novelist.
  • brushfire — a fire in bushes and scrub
  • buffering — temporary storage of data
  • buffeting — response of an aircraft structure to buffet, esp an irregular oscillation of the tail
  • bufotalin — the principal poisonous substance in the skin and saliva of the common European toad
  • bufotoxin — a toxin obtained from the skin glands of the European toad, Bufa vulgaris.
  • bullfight — A bullfight is a public entertainment in which people fight and kill bulls. Bullfights take place in Spain, Portugal, and Latin America.
  • bullfinch — A bullfinch is a type of small European bird. The male has a black head and a pinkish-red breast.
  • bursiform — shaped like a pouch or sac
  • cambiform — resembling a cambium
  • cobriform — cobra-like
  • cymbiform — having the shape of a boat
  • deafblind — unable to hear or see
  • debriefed — Simple past tense and past participle of debrief.
  • debriefer — a person who debriefs or creates a report after an assignment or an incident
  • defibered — (of food) having little or no natural fiber, typically as the result of commercial refining or processing.
  • 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.
  • disbelief — the inability or refusal to believe or to accept something as true.
  • driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
  • 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.
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