9-letter words containing f, l, u, b
- fibrously — In a fibrous manner.
- figurable — Capable of being brought to a fixed form or shape.
- film buff — a connoisseur of or expert on cinema and films
- flabellum — a fan, especially one used in religious ceremonies.
- flambeaux — a flaming torch.
- flashbulb — a glass bulb, filled with oxygen and aluminum or zirconium wire or foil, which, when ignited electrically, burns with a brilliant flash to provide momentary illumination of a subject.
- flashcube — a cube, for attaching to a camera, that contains a flashbulb in each vertical side and rotates automatically for taking four flash pictures in succession.
- flashtube — electronic flash.
- flensburg — a port in N Germany, in Schleswig-Holstein: taken from Denmark by Prussia in 1864; voted to remain German in 1920. Pop: 85 300 (2003 est)
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- flushable — (of a toilet) That has a flushing mechanism.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- foul ball — a batted ground ball that is hit and played outside the foul lines, or that passes outside the foul lines at first or third base, or that is played outside the foul line between home and first or third base regardless of where hit.
- foulbrood — any of several bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae, characterized by the putrefying of body tissues.
- fulbright — (James) William, 1905–95, U.S. politician: senator 1945–74.
- full beam — the brightest light transmitted from car headlights
- full bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full-back — sports; player , position
- full-bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- fullbacks — Plural form of fullback.
- fullblood — person of unmixed race
- fumblings — Plural form of fumbling.
- fungibles — Plural form of fungible.
- funnelweb — A literate-programming tool by Ross Williams <[email protected]>. It emphasises simplicity and reliability. It provides a macro facility and assists in the production of typeset documentation. It is independent of the input programming language. Posted to comp.sources.unix volume 26 under CopyLeft. Runs on Sun, Vax, Macintosh and IBM PC.
- furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
- golf club — any of various long-handled clubs with wooden or metal heads, for hitting the ball in golf. Compare iron (def 5), wood1 (def 8).
- half buck — a half dollar; the sum of 50 cents.
- half-blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- half-butt — a snooker cue longer than an ordinary cue, usually used with a long rest
- infusible — capable of being infused.
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- outfumble — to exceed in fumbling
- puff-ball — any of various basidiomycetous fungi, especially of the genus Lycoperdon and allied genera, characterized by a ball-like fruit body that emits a cloud of spores when broken.
- quaffable — (informal, usually referring to wine) Easy to drink.
- rebukeful — (of a person) quick to scold or reprimand
- refutable — to prove to be false or erroneous, as an opinion or charge.
- subfamily — Biology. a category of related genera within a family.
- subfossil — something partly fossilized
- unaffable — pleasantly easy to approach and to talk to; friendly; cordial; warmly polite: an affable and courteous gentleman.
- unbaffled — not baffled or confused by contradictions
- unbashful — uncomfortably diffident and easily embarrassed; shy; timid.
- unfadable — to lose brightness or vividness of color.
- unfixable — to repair; mend.
- unflyable — not able to be flown
- unifiable — capable of being unified.
- wolfsburg — a city in Lower Saxony, in N central Germany, near Brunswick.