9-letter words containing f, i, b, o
- firstborn — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- fishbowls — Plural form of fishbowl.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- flipbooks — Plural form of flipbook.
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
- fold limb — either of the sides of a geological fold
- forbiddal — Lb archaic The act of forbidding something.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forbidder — One who forbids.
- forboding — Alternative form of foreboding.
- forebrain — Also called prosencephalon. the anterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate, or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue including the diencephalon and telencephalon.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- forelimbs — Plural form of forelimb.
- four bits — 50 cents.
- framboise — raspberry.
- frithborh — (from Old English) a frankpledge
- frobisher — Sir Martin, 1535?–94, English navigator and explorer.
- frostbite — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- globefish — puffer (def 2).
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- knife box — a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
- libriform — (of a fibre of woody tissue) elongated and having a pitted thickened cell wall
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeblood — the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- lift bolt — an eyebolt, as on a yardarm, to which a topping lift is secured.
- myofibril — a contractile fibril of skeletal muscle, composed mainly of actin and myosin.
- noble fir — a fir, Abies procera, of the northwestern U.S., which may grow to a height of 250 feet (76 meters).
- nonbelief — (religion) Failure to believe; lack of religion.
- objectify — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- overbrief — too brief
- soft-bill — any of numerous birds, as thrushes or tanagers, having relatively weak bills suited for eating insects, soft-bodied animals, and fruit rather than hard seeds.
- soft-boil — to boil (an egg) just long enough for the yolk and white to partially solidify, usually three or four minutes.
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- suboffice — a branch or local office of a business
- zombified — Simple past tense and past participle of zombify.