13-letter words containing f, e, b, r
- branch office — the local branch of a bank, shop, or other business
- break feeding — the feeding of animals on paddocks where feeding space is controlled by the frequent movement of an electric fence
- breakfast bar — a counter in a kitchen where people can sit and have breakfast
- breakfast set — a set of plates, bowls, eggcups, etc, specially designed to be used at breakfast
- breidha fjord — an inlet of Denmark Strait on the NW coast of Iceland.
- brief against — If someone, especially a politician, briefs against another person, he or she tries to harm the other person's reputation by saying something unfavourable about them.
- bring to life — to bring back to consciousness
- buffalo berry — a shrub (genus Shepherdia) of the oleaster family, native to W North America, with silvery leaves
- buffalo grove — a city in NE Illinois.
- buffer memory — a temporary holding area for data
- buffet supper — supper at which people stand up and help themselves from the table
- buoyant force — the law that a body immersed in a fluid is buoyed up by a force (buoyant force) equal to the weight of the fluid displaced by the body.
- butcher knife — a large, very sharp knife for cutting or trimming meat.
- butterfingers — a person who drops things inadvertently or fails to catch things
- butterfly net — a lightweight, fine net on the end of a pole used for catching butterflies
- butterfly nut — wing nut.
- butterfly pea — any of several leguminous plants of the genus Clitoria, as C. mariana, of North America, having pale-blue flowers.
- butterflyfish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
- camp fire boy — a boy who is a member of the Campfire Boys and Girls. Compare Camp Fire Girl.
- carbon offset — a compensatory measure made by an individual or company for carbon emissions, usually through sponsoring activities or projects which increase carbon dioxide absorption, such as tree planting
- carboniferous — yielding coal or carbon
- climbing fern — any of several chiefly tropical, vinelike ferns of the genus Lygodium, having climbing or trailing stems.
- cobaltiferous — containing cobalt
- cobol fingers — (jargon) /koh'bol fing'grz/ Reported from Sweden, a hypothetical disease one might get from coding in COBOL. The language requires code verbose beyond all reason (see candygrammar); thus it is alleged that programming too much in COBOL causes one's fingers to wear down to stubs by the endless typing.
- comfortablest — Superlative form of comfortable.
- cyberfeminism — A community, philosophy and set of practices concerned with feminist acts in cyberspace.
- date of birth — Your date of birth is the exact date on which you were born, including the year.
- debt of honor — a gambling debt: not legally enforceable
- defibrillated — Simple past tense and past participle of defibrillate.
- defibrillator — A defibrillator is a machine that starts the heart beating normally again after a heart attack, by giving it an electric shock.
- defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
- deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
- dietary fiber — fiber (def 9).
- dietary fibre — fibrous substances in fruits and vegetables, such as the structural polymers of cell walls, consumption of which aids digestion and is believed to help prevent certain diseases
- diversifiable — to make diverse, as in form or character; give variety or diversity to; variegate.
- double-figure — double-digit.
- fabric filter — A fabric filter is a type of filter in which solids are removed from a gas by passing it though a fabric.
- false bulrush — a tall reedlike marsh plant, Typha latifolia, with straplike leaves and flowers in long brown sausage-shaped spikes: family Typhaceae
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- farm labourer — a person engaged in physical work on a farm
- farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
- fast-breaking — (of a news story) occurring suddenly, and often portending a series of events or further developments in rapid succession.
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- favorableness — Alternative spelling of favourableness.
- featherbedded — Simple past tense and past participle of featherbed.
- featherbrains — Plural form of featherbrain.
- febrifacients — Plural form of febrifacient.
- feedback form — A feedback form is a paper with questions on it and spaces marked where you should write the answers. It asks a hotel guest if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- fellow member — someone who is a member of the same organization or society as you
- fender bender — a collision between motor vehicles in which there is only minor damage.