10-letter words containing f, e, r, b, a
- fourbagger — home run.
- framboesia — yaws.
- free beach — a beach that permits nude bathing.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- furbearers — Plural form of furbearer.
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- half-breed — a contemptuous term used to refer to the offspring of parents of different racial origin, especially the offspring of an American Indian and a white person of European descent.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- kapfenberg — an industrial town in E Austria, in Styria. Pop: 22 234 (2001)
- klangfarbe — instrumental timbre or tone colour
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- left brace — (character) "". {ASCII character 123. Common names: open brace; left brace; left squiggly; left squiggly bracket/brace; left curly bracket/brace; ITU-T: opening brace. Rare: brace ("}" >INTERCAL: embrace ("}" = bracelet). Paired with right brace ("}").
- left brain — the left hemisphere of the human brain, which is believed to control linear and analytical thinking, decision-making, and language
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- pilferable — capable of being pilfered
- preferable — more desirable.
- preferably — more desirable.
- profitable — yielding profit; remunerative: a profitable deal.
- referrable — to direct for information or anything required: He referred me to books on astrology.
- refillable — a material, supply, or the like, to replace something that has been used up: a refill for a prescription.
- reformable — the improvement or amendment of what is wrong, corrupt, unsatisfactory, etc.: social reform; spelling reform.
- refuelable — capable of being refuelled
- refundable — to give back or restore (especially money); repay.
- roast beef — cow's meat cooked in oven
- softballer — a person who plays or is an enthusiast of softball.
- stableford — a scoring system in which points are awarded according to the number of strokes taken at each hole, whereby a hole completed in one stroke over par counts as one point, a hole completed in level par counts as two points, etc
- subsurface — below the surface, especially of a body of water.
- sufferable — to undergo or feel pain or distress: The patient is still suffering.
- unfarmable — a tract of land, usually with a house, barn, silo, etc., on which crops and often livestock are raised for livelihood.
- unfordable — (of a river, flood, stream, etc) not able to be forded
- unruffable — implacable
- verifiable — to prove the truth of, as by evidence or testimony; confirm; substantiate: Events verified his prediction.
- waferboard — a structural material made from wood wafers of controlled thickness and length bonded together with waterproof phenolic resin under extreme heat and pressure.
- warble fly — any of several stout, woolly flies of the family Oestridae, the larvae of which produce warbles in cattle and other animals.
- wifebeater — One who (usually as a repeated practice) beats one’s wife, or a husband prone to violence.
- zebra fish — any of various fishes with barred, zebralike markings; often, specif., a danio (Danio rerio) that is kept in aquariums and used in genetic research