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

  • frame buffer — (hardware)   Part of a video system in which an image is stored, pixel by pixel and which is used to refresh a raster image. The term "video memory" suggests a fairly static display whereas a frame buffer holds one frame from a sequence of frames forming a moving image. Frame buffers are found in frame grabbers and time base correction systems, for example.
  • franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
  • free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
  • freezer burn — light-colored spots that appear on frozen food, caused by loss of surface moisture due to faulty packaging or improper freezing methods.
  • french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
  • french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
  • frequentable — Accessible.
  • fresh breeze — a wind of 19–24 miles per hour (9–11 m/sec). Compare breeze1 (def 2).
  • 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.
  • front burner — Informal. a condition or position of top priority: Put the project on the front burner and finish it as soon as possible.
  • frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
  • frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
  • frontbencher — (politics) one who sits on the front bench in a parliament. Typically the spokesmen for those who sit further back.
  • fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
  • gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
  • globeflowers — Plural form of globeflower.
  • go for broke — a simple past tense of break.
  • half brother — brother (def 2).
  • half-brother — brother (def 2).
  • hereinbefore — before in this document, statement, etc.
  • hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
  • 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.
  • irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
  • irreformably — in an irreformable manner
  • irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
  • irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
  • khyber knife — a long Indian knife having a triangular, single-edged blade with the handle set off center toward the back.
  • krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
  • labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
  • leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
  • leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
  • left bracket — (character)   "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
  • left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
  • murfreesboro — a city in central Tennessee: battle of Stone River (or Murfreesboro) 1862.
  • muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
  • muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
  • neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
  • neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • nonforbidden — Unforbidden.
  • olefin fiber — any of a group of synthetic textile fibers, as Herculon, formed from long-chain polymers no less than 85 percent ethylene, propylene, or other olefin units.
  • opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
  • overflow bit — (architecture)   A processor flag bit set by the ALU to indicate overflow.
  • platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
  • plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
  • prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
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