8-letter words containing f, e, b, a
- fan belt — (in automotive vehicles) a belt, driven by the crankshaft of an engine, that turns a fan for drawing cooling air through the radiator.
- farebeat — to illegally avoid paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farmable — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- feasible — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feasibly — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- february — the second month of the year, ordinarily containing 28 days, but containing 29 days in leap years. Abbreviation: Feb.
- feebates — Plural form of feebate.
- feed bag — Also called nose bag. a bag for feeding horses, placed before the mouth and fastened around the head with straps.
- feedable — to give food to; supply with nourishment: to feed a child.
- feedback — Electronics. the process of returning part of the output of a circuit, system, or device to the input, either to oppose the input (negative feedback) or to aid the input (positive feedback) acoustic feedback.
- feedbags — Plural form of feedbag.
- feel bad — feel guilty
- feel-bad — causing or characterized by feelings of unhappiness or depression
- fellable — capable of being or fit to be felled.
- fern bar — a stylish bar or tavern conspicuously decorated with ferns and other greenery.
- fibranne — viscose rayon made from spun yarn.
- fileable — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- fillable — to make full; put as much as can be held into: to fill a jar with water.
- filmable — noting or pertaining to a story or to a literary work readily adaptable to motion picture form.
- fimbriae — Often, fimbriae. Botany, Zoology. a fringe or fringed border.
- findable — to come upon by chance; meet with: He found a nickel in the street.
- fineable — subject to a fine; punishable by a fine.
- fireable — Alternative form of firable.
- fireback — a piece, lining the rear of a fireplace, usually of cast iron.
- fireball — Sir Charles George Douglas, 1860–1943, Canadian poet and novelist.
- fireband — A band or bond forged by fire.
- firebase — an artillery base, especially one set up quickly to support advancing troops or to forestall enemy advances.
- fireboat — a powered vessel equipped to fight fires on boats, docks, shores, etc.
- firebrat — a bristletail, Thermobia domestica, that lives in areas around furnaces, boilers, steampipes, etc.
- fishable — that may be fished in: nonpolluted, fishable streams.
- fittable — adapted or suited; appropriate: This water isn't fit for drinking. A long-necked giraffe is fit for browsing treetops.
- flabbier — Comparative form of flabby.
- flabella — a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
- flambeau — a flaming torch.
- flambeed — Also, flambéed [flahm-beyd] /flɑmˈbeɪd/ (Show IPA). (of food) served in flaming liquor, especially brandy: steak flambé.
- flatbeds — Plural form of flatbed.
- flaubert — Gustave [gys-tav] /güsˈtav/ (Show IPA), 1821–80, French novelist.
- fleabags — Plural form of fleabag.
- fleabane — any of various composite plants, as Pulicaria dysenterica, of Europe, or Erigeron philadelphicus, of the U.S., reputed to destroy or drive away fleas.
- fleabite — the bite of a flea.
- flowable — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
- foamable — Capable of being converted into foam.
- foilable — to prevent the success of; frustrate; balk: Loyal troops foiled his attempt to overthrow the government.
- foldable — to bend (cloth, paper, etc.) over upon itself.
- forbeare — Archaic spelling of forbear.
- forbears — Plural form of forbear.
- fordable — a place where a river or other body of water is shallow enough to be crossed by wading.
- forebear — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
- formable — external appearance of a clearly defined area, as distinguished from color or material; configuration: a triangular form.
- framable — a border or case for enclosing a picture, mirror, etc.