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12-letter words containing f, b

  • fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
  • flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • flat battery — power cell that has run down
  • 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.
  • foggy bottom — a low-lying area bordering the Potomac River in Washington, D.C.
  • food subsidy — a financial aid supplied by a government, as to industry, farmers, or consumers, in order to make low-cost food available to the poor
  • foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
  • 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.
  • for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
  • forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
  • forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
  • forebodement — The act of foreboding.
  • 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.
  • foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
  • foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
  • 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.
  • fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
  • fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
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