8-letter words containing f, i, b
- boarfish — any of various spiny-finned marine teleost fishes of the genera Capros, Antigonia, etc, related to the dories, having a deep compressed body, a long snout, and large eyes
- boatlift — an evacuation or rescue by boat
- bogotify — (jargon) /boh-go't*-fi:/ To make or become bad. A program that has been changed so many times as to become completely disorganised has become bogotified. If you tighten a nut too hard and strip the threads on the bolt, the bolt has become bogotified. See also bogosity.
- boil off — to remove or be removed (from) by boiling
- boil-off — Rocketry. any vapor loss from the oxidizer or fuel in a rocket during countdown.
- bonafide — made, done, presented, etc., in good faith; without deception or fraud: a bona fide statement of intent to sell.
- bonefish — a silvery marine clupeoid game fish, Albula vulpes, occurring in warm shallow waters: family Albulidae
- boniface — Saint, original name Wynfrith. ?680–?755 ad, Anglo-Saxon missionary: archbishop of Mainz (746–755). Feast day: June 5
- box file — a rigid file which opens like a box, usually made of strong cardboard and able to hold a large quantity of documents
- brainfag — prolonged mental fatigue.
- briefest — lasting or taking a short time; of short duration: a brief walk; a brief stay in the country.
- briefing — A briefing is a meeting at which information or instructions are given to people, especially before they do something.
- bronzify — to make into bronze
- bulfinch — Charles1763-1844; U.S. architect
- bunfight — a tea party
- burrfish — any of several porcupinefishes of the genus Chilomycterus, covered with short, immovable spines.
- bushfire — an uncontrolled fire in the bush; a scrub or forest fire
- cubiform — having the shape of a cube
- debriefs — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of debrief.
- defiable — to challenge the power of; resist boldly or openly: to defy parental authority.
- fabiform — Shaped like a bean.
- fabliaux — Plural form of fabliau.
- fabulism — (literature) A form of magic realism in which fantastical elements are placed into an everyday setting.
- fabulist — a person who invents or relates fables.
- fabulize — To compose or relate fables or fictions.
- failback — failover
- fairborn — a city in W Ohio, near Dayton.
- faizabad — a city in E Uttar Pradesh, in N India: the ancient site Ayodhya, sacred to the Hindus, is nearby.
- fallible — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- fallibly — In a fallible manner.
- feasible — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- feasibly — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- febrific — producing or marked by fever.
- feeblish — physically weak, as from age or sickness; frail.
- fencible — Capable of being defended.
- fernbird — Bowdleria punctata, an insectivorous bird native to New Zealand.
- fiberize — to break or crack into fibers.
- fiberous — Misspelling of fibrous.
- fibranne — viscose rayon made from spun yarn.
- fibratus — (of a cloud) hairlike or striated in composition.
- fibrilla — a fibril.
- fibrino- — fibrin
- fibroids — Plural form of fibroid.
- fibromas — Plural form of fibroma.
- fibrosis — the development in an organ of excess fibrous connective tissue.
- fibrotic — the development in an organ of excess fibrous connective tissue.
- fig-bird — any Australian oriole of the genus Sphecotheres, feeding on figs and other fruit
- filberts — Plural form of filbert.
- fileable — a long, narrow tool of steel or other metal having a series of ridges or points on its surfaces for reducing or smoothing surfaces of metal, wood, etc.
- filibegs — Plural form of filibeg.