13-letter words containing f, b, m
- frame grabber — (hardware) A device that captures a single frame from an analog video signal (from a video camera or VCR) and stores it as a digital image under computer control.
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- froude number — a dimensionless number used in hydrodynamics for model simulation of actual conditions
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
- infallibilism — the principle of papal infallibility
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- midriff bulge — a roll of fat around your midriff
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- myelofibrosis — the replacement of bone marrow by fibrous tissue, characteristic of leukemia and certain other diseases.
- myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
- reformability — the extent to which something or someone is reformable; the capability or susceptibility to reform
- refurbishment — to furbish again; renovate; brighten: to refurbish the lobby.
- rule of thumb — a general or approximate principle, procedure, or rule based on experience or practice, as opposed to a specific, scientific calculation or estimate.
- self-assembly — Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
- semi-flexible — partially flexible; involving or possessing some flexibility
- strombuliform — in the shape of a coil
- sulfur-bottom — blue whale.
- timber-framed — framed by exposed timbers
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- umbelliferous — bearing an umbel or umbels.
- umbraculiform — umbrella-shaped
- umbrella leaf — a rare, large-leaved perennial herb, Diphylleia cymosa, of the southeastern U.S., having white flowers and small, blue berries.
- unciform bone — a small bone of the wrist
- uncomfortable — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- uncomfortably — causing discomfort or distress; painful; irritating.
- unconformable — not conformable; not conforming.
- unconformably — not conformable; not conforming.
- uninflammable — (of materials and substances) not liable to catch fire, not flammable
- unperformable — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
- zombification — The act or process of zombifying.