11-letter words containing f, e, b
- disbenefits — Plural form of disbenefit.
- dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
- dobsonflies — Plural form of dobsonfly.
- double flat — a symbol () that lowers the pitch of the note following it by two semitones.
- double life — If you say that someone is living a double life, you mean that they lead two separate and very different lives, and they appear to be a different person in each.
- dumbfounded — to make speechless with amazement; astonish.
- ebola fever — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
- enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
- exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
- facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
- fairy bread — slices of white bread covered with small beads of brightly coloured sugar, served as a children’s snack
- faith-based — affiliated with, supported by, or based on a religion or religious group: faith-based charities.
- fall behind — to drop or descend under the force of gravity, as to a lower place through loss or lack of support.
- false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
- falsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- 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.
- fashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
- fat-soluble — soluble in oils or fats.
- feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- 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.
- fiddle back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- fiddle-back — a chair back having a solid splat similar in form to that of a fiddle.
- field label — a descriptive word or phrase for a field in a record, such as 'surname', 'postcode', etc
- filibusters — Plural form of filibuster.
- fillibuster — Alternative form of filibuster.
- fimbrillate — bordered by or having a small or fine fringe.
- financeable — the management of revenues; the conduct or transaction of money matters generally, especially those affecting the public, as in the fields of banking and investment.
- fine bouche — a refined taste; educated palate.
- 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.