10-letter words containing f, o, r, b, e
- fibrescope — (British) An instrument, consisting of a fibre optic bundle, used to observe inaccessible areas.
- fibrillose — Covered with hair-like appendages, as the undersurface of some lichens.
- fibrinogen — a globulin occurring in blood and yielding fibrin in blood coagulation.
- fingerbone — A bone in the finger.
- fingerbowl — a small bowl filled with water for rinsing the fingers at the table after a meal
- fireboards — Plural form of fireboard.
- firebombed — Simple past tense and past participle of firebomb.
- firebottle — electron tube
- flakeboard — a form of particle board.
- flat broke — having no money
- floordrobe — a pile of clothes left on the floor of a room
- flower box — a box used for growing decorative plants in or around the home, often attached to a window ledge.
- flower bud — Botany. a small axillary or terminal protuberance on a plant, containing rudimentary foliage (leaf bud) the rudimentary inflorescence (flower bud) or both (mixed bud) an undeveloped or rudimentary stem or branch of a plant.
- flower bug — any of several bugs of the family Anthocoridae that live on flowers and are predaceous on aphids and other small insects.
- flowerbeds — Plural form of flowerbed.
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fluoboride — (chemistry) Any borofluoride.
- fodderbeet — sugar beet used as fodder.
- food-borne — transmitted by contaminated food
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- footballer — a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
- footbridge — a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forbearers — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbearing — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- force back — If you force back an emotion or desire, you manage, with an effort, not to experience it.
- forebearer — Uncommon variant of forebear.
- forebelief — A previous belief.
- forebitter — a sea shanty
- foreboding — a prediction; portent.
- forgivable — to grant pardon for or remission of (an offense, debt, etc.); absolve.
- formidable — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- forseeable — Misspelling of foreseeable.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fourbagger — home run.
- framboesia — yaws.
- free-blown — (of glass) blown and shaped manually and without the use of a mold. Compare blown-molded, offhand (def 5).
- free-bored — (of a rifle) having a bore that is not rifled within a short distance of the breech, so that a fired cartridge travels about 1/2 inch (1.3 cm) before being engaged by the lands, thus reducing initial high pressures.
- freebooter — a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- frostbites — Plural form of frostbite.
- furbelowed — Simple past tense and past participle of furbelow.
- gable roof — a roof sloping downward in two parts at an angle from a central ridge, so as to leave a gable at each end.
- informable — to give or impart knowledge of a fact or circumstance to: He informed them of his arrival.
- laborforce — Alternative form of labor force.
- lay before — If you lay an idea or piece of information before someone, you present it to them in detail, usually in order to obtain their approval or advice.
- loaf bread — commercially baked bread; store-bought bread.
- microfiber — a very fine polyester fiber, weighing less than one denier per filament, used especially for clothing.
- microfibre — Alternative spelling of microfiber.