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12-letter words containing f, e, b, r

  • 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.
  • flabbergasts — Plural form of flabbergast.
  • flabberghast — (archaic) Alternative form of flabbergast.
  • flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
  • flabergasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabergast.
  • flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
  • flannelboard — a flannel-covered surface to which other flannel pieces, as letters of the alphabet, numbers, etc., adhere merely by contact, used mainly in schools as a visual aid.
  • flat battery — power cell that has run down
  • 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.
  • floor broker — a member of a stock or commodity exchange who executes orders on the floor of the exchange for other brokers.
  • flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
  • flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
  • flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
  • flutterboard — a kickboard.
  • fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
  • foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
  • for the best — of the highest quality, excellence, or standing: the best work; the best students.
  • forbearances — Plural form of forbearance.
  • forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
  • forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
  • forebearance — Misspelling of forbearance.
  • forebodement — The act of foreboding.
  • forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
  • forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
  • forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
  • 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).
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