7-letter words containing f, b
- faberge — (Peter) Carl Gustavovich [kahrl guh-stah-vuh-vich] /kɑrl gəˈstɑ və vɪtʃ/ (Show IPA), 1846–1920, Russian goldsmith and jeweler.
- fabliau — a short metrical tale, usually ribald and humorous, popular in medieval France.
- fabling — Present participle of fable.
- fabrick — Obsolete form of fabric.
- fabrics — Plural form of fabric.
- fabrile — Pertaining to a workman, or to work done in stone, metal, wood, etc.
- fabular — of or relating to a story, novel, or the like written in the form of a fable.
- facebar — a wrestling hold in which a wrestler stretches the skin on his opponent's face backwards
- fadable — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- falbala — a furbelow or puckered flounce for decorating dresses in the 17th century.
- fanback — (of a chair) having a fan-shaped back.
- fanbase — the fans of a celebrity, team, media franchise, etc., when considered collectively: The fan base was crushed when the team moved to a different city. The studio marketed the sequels heavily to the franchise’s established fan base.
- fanboys — Plural form of fanboy.
- farebox — a metal box for passenger fares, as on a bus or streetcar.
- farmboy — A boy or young man who works on a farm.
- fast by — close or hard by; very near
- fatback — Chiefly South Midland and Southern U.S. the fat and fat meat from the upper part of a side of pork, usually cured by salt.
- fatbird — a small wading bird (Calidris melanotos) native to N America and Asia
- fatbody — a diffuse tissue of insects, having numerous functions including food storage, metabolism, and storage of wastes and in some insects modified as a light-producing organ.
- faxback — An interactive electronic service allowing documents to be downloaded via fax machine.
- febrile — pertaining to or marked by fever; feverish.
- feebate — A system of charges and rebates whereby energy-efficient or environmentally friendly practices are rewarded while failure to adhere to such practices is penalized.
- feebler — Comparative form of feeble.
- feedbag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- feedbox — a box for animal feed.
- fem lib — women's liberation.
- fembots — Plural form of fembot.
- fibbery — The telling of fibs; lying, falsehood.
- fibbing — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- fibered — (of plaster) having an admixture of hair or fiber.
- fibiger — Johannes Andreas Grib [yoh-hah-nis ahn-dre-ahs greeb] /yoʊˈhɑ nɪs ɑnˈdrɛ ɑs grib/ (Show IPA), 1867–1928, Danish pathologist: Nobel Prize in Medicine 1926.
- fibrate — any of a class of drugs used to lower fat levels in the body
- fibrils — Plural form of fibril.
- fibroid — resembling fiber or fibrous tissue.
- fibroin — an indigestible protein that is a principal component of spider webs and silk.
- fibroma — a tumor consisting essentially of fibrous tissue.
- fibrose — to become fibrous, to form fibrous tissue
- fibrous — containing, consisting of, or resembling fibers.
- fibster — a small or trivial lie; minor falsehood.
- fibulae — Anatomy. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg, extending from the knee to the ankle.
- fibular — Anatomy. the outer and thinner of the two bones of the human leg, extending from the knee to the ankle.
- fibulas — Plural form of fibula.
- fidibus — A piece of paper used for lighting a pipe, etc.
- filbert — the thick-shelled, edible nut of certain cultivated varieties of hazel, especially of Corylus avellana, of Europe.
- filibeg — the kilt or pleated skirt worn by Scottish Highlanders.
- fimbria — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- finable — subject to a fine; punishable by a fine.
- finback — any baleen whale of the genus Balaenoptera, having a prominent dorsal fin, especially B. physalus, of the Atlantic and Pacific coasts; rorqual: an endangered species.
- firable — Capable of being fired (in various senses).
- firbank — (Arthur Annesley) Ronald. 1886–1926, English novelist, whose works include Valmouth (1919), The Flower beneath the Foot (1923), and Concerning the Eccentricities of Cardinal Pirelli (1926)