12-letter words containing f, e, b
- 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.
- false bottom — a horizontal partition above the actual bottom of a box, trunk, etc., especially one forming a secret compartment.
- family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
- 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.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- 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.
- 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.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- 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.
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- five by five — short and fat.
- five-by-five — short and fat.
- 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.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- 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
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- 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.