12-letter words containing f, l, a, b
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- 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.
- flamboyantly — In a flamboyant manner.
- flame carbon — a carbon electrode containing metallic salts that colour the arc in a flame-arc light
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- 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
- 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.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- flood basalt — a very extensive lava flow of basaltic composition that has issued from a fissure, often to be found as part of a series of such flows one on top of another, forming a plateau
- flow breccia — a volcanic breccia that has solidified from a lava flow.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- foot-lambert — a unit of luminance or photometric brightness, equal to the luminance of a surface emitting a luminous flux of one lumen per square foot, the luminance of a perfectly reflecting surface receiving an illumination of one foot-candle. Abbreviation: fL.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forecastable — to predict (a future condition or occurrence); calculate in advance: to forecast a heavy snowfall; to forecast lower interest rates.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- formalizable — Capable of being formalized.
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- free balloon — a balloon, often equipped to carry passengers, that drifts with air currents and whose ascent and descent are controlled by the release of ballast and buoyant gas.
- frequentable — Accessible.
- fribble away — to use wastefully
- 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.
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gambrel roof — a gable roof, each side of which has a shallower slope above a steeper one. Compare mansard (def 1).
- half binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half brother — brother (def 2).
- half-binding — a type of book binding consisting of a leather binding on the spine and, sometimes, the corners, with paper or cloth sides.
- half-blooded — having parents of two different breeds, species, or the like.
- half-brother — brother (def 2).
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- identifiable — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identifiably — In a manner or state that is capable of being distinguished or named.
- imperforable — not able to be perforated
- in behalf of — in / on behalf of, as a representative of or a proxy for: On behalf of my colleagues, I address you tonight.
- incapable of — not allowing or admitting; not able to accept or experience
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.