12-letter words containing f, l, i, b
- club fighter — a mediocre boxer who fights mostly on programs at small sporting clubs
- configurable — to design or adapt to form a specific configuration or for some specific purpose: The planes are being configured to hold more passengers in each row.
- cyberloafing — (informal) The use of computers by employees for purposes unrelated to work.
- defibrillate — to stop fibrillation of (the heart), as by the use of electric current
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dissyllabify — to make disyllabic
- double drift — a method of calculating wind direction and velocity by observing the direction of drift of an aircraft on two or more headings.
- double first — a first in two subjects.
- emulsifiable — That can be emulsified, or applied in an emulsion.
- facial scrub — a beauty product or treatment which cleanses and exfoliates the skin of the face
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- family album — photos of a family
- family bible — a large Bible usually having pages at the front for recording the marriages, births, and deaths in a family.
- fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibrilliform — of the form of a fibril.
- fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
- fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibromyalgia — a syndrome characterized by fatigue and chronic pain in the muscles and in tissues surrounding the joints.
- fiddler crab — any small, burrowing crab of the genus Uca, characterized by one greatly enlarged claw in the male.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- film library — a collection of films, motion pictures, videodiscs, videocassettes, and any other materials stored on film.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fish-bellied — (of a beam or rail) having a convex underside.
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flabelliform — Shaped like a fan; flabellate.
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.