11-letter words containing f, e, b, r
- fare-beater — a person who illegally avoids paying a fare, as by entering a public bus through the exit door.
- farkleberry — a shrub or small tree, Vaccinium arboreum, of the heath family, native to the southern U.S., bearing small, waxy, white flowers and black, many-seeded berries.
- farm bureau — American Farm Bureau Federation.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- feather bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- feather-bed — a mattress or a bed cover, as a quilt, stuffed with soft feathers.
- featherback — any freshwater fish of the family Notopteridae, of Asia and western Africa, having a small, feathery dorsal fin and a very long anal fin extending from close behind the head to the tip of the tail.
- featherbeds — Plural form of featherbed.
- featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
- febriferous — producing fever.
- fermentable — Also called organized ferment. any of a group of living organisms, as yeasts, molds, and certain bacteria, that cause fermentation.
- fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
- fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
- fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
- fibrillated — to cause to undergo fibrillation.
- fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
- fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
- fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
- filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
- fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
- finite verb — a verb form that distinguishes person, number, and tense, and also mood or aspect, as opens in She opens the door.
- fire beetle — any of numerous click beetles of the genus Pyrophorus, of tropical America, having luminous reddish or greenish spots on the body.
- fire blight — a disease of pears, apples, quinces, etc., characterized by blossom, twig, and fruit blight and stem cankers, caused by a bacterium, Erwinia amylovora.
- fireballers — Plural form of fireballer.
- fireballing — (baseball) Tending to pitch fastballs.
- firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
- flabbergast — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flatterable — to try to please by complimentary remarks or attention.
- floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
- flutterball — (baseball) A type of pitch; knuckleball.
- fly-by-wire — (of aircraft or spacecraft) activated entirely by electronic controls.
- foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
- footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
- footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
- forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
- forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
- forbiddenly — in a forbidden manner; illegally
- forebearers — Plural form of forebearer.
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- forebodings — Plural form of foreboding.
- foreseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- foreseeably — In a manner that could be foreseen.
- forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- forgiveable — Misspelling of forgivable.
- four-bagger — home run.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.