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11-letter words containing f, o, t, b

  • fibrocement — (formerly) cement combined with asbestos fibre, used esp in sheets for building
  • fibrocystic — showing or having the increased fibrosis associated with dilated glandular structure, as in the breast nodules of fibrocystic disease.
  • fibronectin — a fibrous protein that binds to collagen, fibrin, and other proteins and also to the cell membranes, functioning as an anchor and connector.
  • fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
  • first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
  • flamboyante — an alternative name for the flame tree, Poinciana regia
  • flamboyants — Plural form of flamboyant.
  • floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
  • flowability — to move along in a stream: The river flowed slowly to the sea.
  • flying boat — a seaplane whose main body is a hull adapted for floating.
  • footballing — a game in which two opposing teams of 11 players each defend goals at opposite ends of a field having goal posts at each end, with points being scored chiefly by carrying the ball across the opponent's goal line and by place-kicking or drop-kicking the ball over the crossbar between the opponent's goal posts. Compare conversion (def 13), field goal (def 1), safety (def 6), touchdown.
  • footballist — Lb dated A football player.
  • footbinding — The old Chinese custom of binding women's feet with cloth to prevent them from growing with age.
  • footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
  • footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
  • forfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • forgettable — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
  • formability — the capacity of a material, as sheet steel, to be readily bent, stamped, shaped, etc.
  • four-by-two — a piece of timber with a cross section that measures 4 inches by 2 inches
  • fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
  • freebooters — Plural form of freebooter.
  • freebootery — the practices of a freebooter
  • freebooting — to act as a freebooter; plunder; loot.
  • from a to b — People talk about getting from A to B when they are referring generally to journeys they need to make, without saying where the journeys will take them.
  • front bench — (used with a singular verb) (in the House of Commons) either of two seats near the Speaker, on which the leaders of the major parties sit.
  • frostbiting — Present participle of frostbite.
  • frostbitten — injured by frost or extreme cold.
  • full bottle — well-informed and enthusiastic about something
  • gift of gab — an aptitude for speaking fluently, glibly, or persuasively.
  • half-bottle — a bottle half the size of a standard bottle of wine, spirits, etc
  • halfbrother — Alternative spelling of half brother.
  • if-come bet — pyramid bet.
  • labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
  • leaf blotch — a symptom or phase of certain especially fungal diseases of plants, characterized by necrotic discoloration of the leaves.
  • lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
  • misdoubtful — doubting; distrustful
  • obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
  • obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • obfuscatory — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
  • obfusticate — Synonym of obfuscate.
  • objectified — Simple past tense and past participle of objectify.
  • objectifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of objectify.
  • off the bat — straight away, from the very start
  • off-the-job — done, received, or happening away from or while not at one's job: off-the-job research.
  • oktoberfest — a traditional festival held each October in Munich, Germany.
  • out-of-band — 1.   (communications)   The exchange of call control information on a dedicated channel, separate from that used by the telephone call or data transmission. 2. Sometimes used to describe what communications people call "shift characters", such as the ESC that leads control sequences for many terminals, or the level shift indicators in the old 5-bit Baudot codes. 3. In personal communication, using methods other than electronic mail, such as telephone or snail-mail. 4.   (software)   Values returned by a function that are not in its "natural" range of return values, but rather signal some kind of exception. Many C functions that normally return a non-negative integer return -1 to indicate failure. This use confuses "out-of-band" with "out-of-range". It is actually a clear example of in-band signalling since it uses the same "channel" for control and data. Compare hidden flag, green bytes, fence.
  • out-of-body — of, relating to, or characterized by the dissociative sensation of perceiving oneself from an external vantage point, as though the mind or soul has left the body and is acting on its own: an alleged out-of-body experience.
  • oxbow front — a front, as of a chest of drawers, having a curve with a concave section between two convex ones.
  • rabbit food — raw vegetables, especially those used in salads, as lettuce, carrots, radishes, or celery.
  • rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
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