12-letter words containing f, e, r, b, a
- french bread — a yeast-raised bread made of dough containing water and distinguished by its thick, well-browned crust, usually made in long, slender, tapered loaves. Compare baguette (def 3).
- french broad — a river in W North Carolina and E Tennessee, flowing N and NW to join the Holston River at Knoxville to form the Tennessee River. 210 miles (338 km) long.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- frontal bone — a broad membrane bone of the skull, forming the forehead and the upper portion of each orbit.
- frontal lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, in front of the central sulcus.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- hobby farmer — a person who runs a farm as a hobby rather than a means of making a living
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- informidable — (obsolete) Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- irreformable — insusceptible to reforming influences; incorrigible.
- irreformably — in an irreformable manner
- irrefragable — not to be disputed or contested.
- irrefragably — In an irrefragable state or condition.
- krafft-ebing — Richard [rich-erd;; German rikh-ahrt] /ˈrɪtʃ ərd;; German ˈrɪx ɑrt/ (Show IPA), Baron von, 1840–1902, German neurologist and author of works on sexual pathology.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- leaf warbler — any of several small, greenish or brownish, Old World warblers of the genus Phylloscopus that feed on insects among the leaves of trees.
- leaf-climber — a plant that climbs by using leaves specialized as tendrils
- left bracket — (character) "[". ASCII character 91. Common: left square bracket; ITU-T: opening bracket; bracket. Rare: square; INTERCAL: U turn. Paired with right bracket ("]").
- left-brained — having the left brain dominant, therefore being more adept at logic, calculation, language, and other thought processes or skills usually associated with the left brain.
- neurofibroma — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- opera bouffe — a comic opera, especially of farcical character.
- platform bed — a bed, originating in Scandinavia in the 1930s, consisting of a simple shallow box for holding a mattress situated on a slightly recessed pedestal.
- prebreakfast — occurring before breakfast, of or pertaining to the period before breakfast
- prefabricate — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- rabbit fever — tularemia.
- rabbitfishes — Plural form of rabbitfish.
- red bandfish — a fish, Cepola haastii, found on the inner continental shelf around New Zealand: family Cepolidae
- rubber-faced — having a face with unusually mobile features: a rubber-faced comedian.
- safe harbour — a place that offers protection from the weather, attack, etc
- safe-breaker — a person who breaks open and robs safes
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- software bus — A support environment for heterogeneous distributed processing, such as the ANSA Testbench.
- sorbefacient — inducing absorption
- stauffenberg — Claus (klaʊs), Graf von. 1907–44, German army officer, who tried to assassinate Hitler (1944). He and his fellow conspirators were executed
- subfeudatory — of or relating to subfeu
- transfer box — A transfer box is a gear system that divides the power between the front and rear axles of a four-wheel drive system.
- transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- treble staff — a staff, bearing a treble clef.
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unfabricated — to make by art or skill and labor; construct: The finest craftspeople fabricated this clock.
- unfavourable — Unfavourable conditions or circumstances cause problems for you and reduce your chances of success.
- unfilterable — not able to be filtered