13-letter words containing f, l, i, b, e
- fallibilities — (of persons) liable to err, especially in being deceived or mistaken.
- farkleberries — Plural form of farkleberry.
- fatigableness — the quality of being fatigable
- fault breccia — angular rock fragments produced by fracture and grinding during faulting and distributed within or adjacent to the fault plane.
- feasibilities — Plural form of feasibility.
- feeble-minded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
- fever blister — cold sore.
- fibre channel — (storage, networking, communications) An ANSI standard originally intended for high-speed SANs connecting servers, disc arrays, and backup devices, also later adapted to form the physical layer of Gigabit Ethernet. Development work on Fibre channel started in 1988 and it was approved by the ANSI standards committee in 1994, running at 100Mb/s. More recent innovations have seen the speed of Fibre Channel SANs increase to 10Gb/s. Several topologies are possible with Fibre Channel, the most popular being a number of devices attached to one (or two, for redundancy) central Fibre Channel switches, creating a reliable infrastructure that allows servers to share storage arrays or tape libraries. One common use of Fibre Channel SANs is for high availability databaseq clusters where two servers are connected to one highly reliable RAID array. Should one server fail, the other server can mount the array itself and continue operations with minimal downtime and loss of data. Other advanced features include the ability to have servers and hard drives seperated by hundreds of miles or to rapidly mirror data between servers and hard drives, perhaps in seperate geographic locations.
- field battery — a small unit of usually four field guns
- filibustering — Present participle of filibuster.
- filibusterism — (dated) Piracy, freebooting; the waging of unauthorised war.
- filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
- fill the bill — a statement of money owed for goods or services supplied: He paid the hotel bill when he checked out.
- filterability — The state or condition of being filterable.
- finback whale — rorqual
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flexible disk — a flexible removable magnetic disk that stores information and can be used to store data for use in a microprocessor
- flight number — the identifying number of a scheduled flight
- floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
- fluidized bed — a bed of fluidized solids used as a heat exchanger or mass transfer medium
- flying bridge — Also called flybridge, fly bridge, monkey bridge. Nautical. a small, often open deck or platform above the pilothouse or main cabin, having duplicate controls and navigational equipment.
- fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
- foot the bill — pay the costs
- free climbing — climbing without using pitons, étriers, etc, as direct aids to ascent, but using ropes, belays, etc, at discretion for security
- free variable — (in functional calculus) a variable occurring in a sentential function and not within the scope of any quantifier containing it.
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- gabriel fauré — Gabriel Urbain [ga-bree-el oor-ban] /ga briˈɛl urˈbɛ̃/ (Show IPA), 1845–1924, French composer.
- globuliferous — containing or producing globules.
- half-timbered — (of a house or building) having the frame and principal supports of timber and the interstices filled in with masonry, plaster, or the like.
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- hyperflexible — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- imperfectible — that cannot be perfected.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- indefatigable — incapable of being tired out; not yielding to fatigue; untiring.
- indefatigably — In an extremely persistent and untiring manner; in an indefatigable manner.
- indemnifiable — Something suitable for indemnification.
- ineffableness — The quality or state of being ineffable.
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- inflexibility — not flexible; incapable of or resistant to being bent; rigid: an inflexible steel rod.
- influenceable — the capacity or power of persons or things to be a compelling force on or produce effects on the actions, behavior, opinions, etc., of others: He used family influence to get the contract.
- infundibulate — Shaped like a funnel; infundibulated or infundibular.
- interfaceable — Capable of being interfaced.
- irrefrangible — not to be broken or violated; inviolable: an irrefrangible rule of etiquette.
- liebfraumilch — a white wine produced chiefly in the region of Hesse in Germany.
- lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.