12-letter words containing f, b, l
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- fly-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- full binding — a complete binding of a volume in any one material, generally leather.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
- half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts