8-letter words containing f, b
- korfball — (uncountable) A non-contact unisex team sport originating from Holland, similar to netball, where players attempt to throw a ball into a basket atop a pole.
- leaf bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- leafbird — any of several greenish, passerine birds of the genus Chloropsis, of Asia, related to the bulbuls, and often kept as pets.
- lifebelt — A life preserver in the shape of a belt.
- lifeboat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifebuoy — A life preserver, especially one in the shape of a ring.
- liftable — to move or bring (something) upward from the ground or other support to a higher position; hoist.
- liftback — hatchback.
- lobefins — Plural form of lobefin.
- loft bed — a bed raised, as on supports, high enough overhead to allow the use of the floor area below for various purposes, as for part of a living room
- morbific — causing disease.
- neckbeef — the flesh from the neck of cattle, regarded as being of poor quality
- nubiform — cloud-like
- numbfish — an electric ray, so called from its power of numbing its prey by means of electric shocks.
- off base — serving as or forming a base: The walls will need a base coat and two finishing coats.
- off-base — located outside the perimeters of a military base: off-base housing for officers.
- off-beam — If you describe something or someone as off-beam, you mean that they are wrong or inaccurate.
- off-beat — to strike violently or forcefully and repeatedly.
- offboard — not carried, installed, etc., within a vehicle or electronic device: offboard software to track and control the robot's movement.
- outbluff — to surpass in bluffing: to outbluff one's opponents at poker.
- outfable — to exceed in creating fables
- pub food — food served in a pub
- puffball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
- puffbird — any of several tropical American birds of the family Bucconidae, related to the barbets, having a large head with the feathers often fluffed out.
- reefable — (of a sail) able to be reefed
- snuffbox — a box for holding snuff, especially one small enough to be carried in the pocket.
- sofa bed — a sofa that can be converted into a bed, either by folding out the seat or by lowering the back to be flush with the seat.
- sofa-bed — a sofa that can be converted into a bed, either by folding out the seat or by lowering the back to be flush with the seat.
- softback — paperback book
- softball — a form of baseball played on a smaller diamond with a ball that is larger and softer than a baseball.
- subchief — a chief below the main chief
- subdwarf — a star which is smaller than a dwarf star
- subfield — a field that is a subset of a given field.
- subfloor — a rough floor beneath a finished floor.
- subfluid — viscous or somewhere between liquid and solid
- subshaft — a secondary shaft in a mine
- surfbird — a sandpiperlike shorebird, Aphriza virgata, of the Pacific coast, breeding in Alaska and wintering in South America.
- surfboat — a strong, buoyant rowboat with high ends, adapted for beaching and passing through surf.
- tableful — the number of persons that can be seated at a table.
- tub-fast — (in the past) a period of fasting and sweating in a hot tub, intended as a cure for venereal disease
- tube fly — an artificial fly with the body tied on a hollow tube that can slide up the leader when a fish takes
- tubiform — shaped like a tube.
- turbofan — a jet engine having a large impeller that takes in air, part of which is used in combustion of fuel, the remainder being mixed with the products of combustion to form a low-velocity exhaust jet.
- unbelief — the state or quality of not believing; incredulity or skepticism, especially in matters of doctrine or religious faith.
- unbereft — not bereft, deprived of, or taken from
- unfabled — not fictitious
- unforbid — unforbidden
- web farm — a large website that uses two or more servers to handle user requests
- web foot — a pad foot having the appearance of toes joined by a web.
- web-feet — a pad foot having the appearance of toes joined by a web.