12-letter words containing f, e, b, r
- brain freeze — Also called ice-cream headache. a pain in the temples and forehead brought on by quickly consuming very cold food or drink.
- brassfounder — a person who makes things from brass
- brazen-faced — shameless or impudent
- break of day — dawn; daybreak.
- breed of cat — type; sort; variety: The new airplane is a completely different breed of cat from any that has been designed before.
- brickfielder — a hot wind in parts of Australia, originally applied to a wind which blew over Sydney carrying dust from the neighbouring Brickfields sand hills
- bright-field — of or relating to the illuminated region about the object of a microscope.
- broken-field — of or having to do with running in which the ball carrier zigzags so as to go past defenders and avoid being tackled by them
- brush flower — a flower or inflorescence with numerous long stamens, usually pollinated by birds or bats
- buckler fern — any of various ferns of the genus Dryopteris, such as D. dilatata (broad buckler fern): family Polypodiaceae
- buffalo robe — a carriage robe or rug made of the skin of the bison, dressed with the hair on
- buffaloberry — any shrub of the genus Shepherdia native to North America
- buffel grass — grass used for pasture in Africa, India, and Australia
- buffer force — a force separating two opposing sides
- buffer state — A buffer state is a peaceful country situated between two or more larger hostile countries.
- buffer stock — a stock of a commodity built up by a government or trade organization with the object of using it to stabilize prices
- bullet-proof — Something that is bullet-proof is made of a strong material that bullets cannot pass through.
- butter knife — a knife, often with a curved tip, used for picking up butter at a table
- buy the farm — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- by reason of — If one thing happens by reason of another, it happens because of it.
- by virtue of — on account of or by reason of
- c beautifier — (cb) A Unix tool for reformatting C source code.
- carbon fiber — a very strong, lightweight synthetic fiber used in protective clothing, spacecraft components, racing shells, etc.
- carbon fibre — a black silky thread of pure carbon made by heating and stretching textile fibres and used because of its lightness and strength at high temperatures for reinforcing resins, ceramics, and metals, esp in turbine blades and for fishing rods
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- coffee break — A coffee break is a short period of time, usually in the morning or afternoon, when you stop working and have a cup of coffee.
- comfortables — Plural form of comfortable.
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- counterbluff — a bluff made in opposition to another bluff
- cyberfriends — Plural form of cyberfriend.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- cybersurfers — Plural form of cybersurfer.
- cybersurfing — The practice of using and browsing the Internet, especially as a habitual pastime.
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- deformed bar — a rod for reinforcing concrete, having surface irregularities, as transverse ridges, to improve the bond.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- fall webworm — the larva of any of several moths, as Hyphantria cunea (fall webworm) or Loxostege similalis (garden webworm) which spins a web over the foliage on which it feeds.
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- featherbacks — Plural form of featherback.
- 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.