12-letter words containing f, e, b, r, i
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- ferry bridge — transporter bridge.
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- figured bass — a bass part in which the notes have numbers under them indicating the chords to be played.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fire brigade — a group of firefighters, especially as formed temporarily or called upon to assist a fire department in an emergency.
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- fixed bridge — a partial denture that is secured permanently in the mouth by being cemented to the adjacent teeth or roots.
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- 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.
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- 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).
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.