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13-letter words containing f, e, b, l

  • bufadienolide — any of a family of steroid lactones, occurring in toad venom and squill, that possess cardiac-stimulating and antitumor activity.
  • buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
  • buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
  • buffing wheel — a wheel covered with a soft material, such as lamb's wool or leather, used for shining and polishing
  • bumblebeefish — any of several gobies of the genus Brachygobius, inhabiting waters of the Malay Archipelago and having brown and yellow bands on the body that resemble the markings of a bumblebee.
  • bundle of his — atrioventricular bundle.
  • butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
  • butterfly nut — wing nut.
  • butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
  • butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • child benefit — In Britain, child benefit is an amount of money paid weekly by the state to families for each of their children.
  • climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
  • cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
  • cobol fingers — (jargon)   /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
  • comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
  • commodifiable — to turn into a commodity; make commercial.
  • confiscatable — confiscable
  • coulomb field — the electrostatic field around an electrically charged body or particle
  • defeasibility — capable of being annulled or terminated.
  • defectibility — the ability to become defectible
  • defendability — (uncountable) The condition of being defendable.
  • defensibility — capable of being defended against assault or injury: The troops were bivouacked in a defensible position.
  • defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
  • double-figure — double-digit.
  • dumbfoundedly — In a dumbfounded manner.
  • eff and blind — to use obscene language
  • fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
  • fallibilities — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
  • false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
  • farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
  • farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
  • fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
  • favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
  • feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
  • feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
  • feedback loop — the path by which some of the output of a circuit, system, or device is returned to the input.
  • fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • fever blister — cold sore.
  • fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications)   An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
  • field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
  • filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
  • filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
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