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

  • coffeeberry — an evergreen shrub, Rhamnus californica, of the buckthorn family, common in the western U.S., having small, greenish flowers and red fruit that turns black, grown as a bee plant.
  • colubriform — shaped like or resembling a member of the Colubridae family of snakes
  • columbiform — Having the form of a dove or pigeon.
  • comfortable — If a piece of furniture or an item of clothing is comfortable, it makes you feel physically relaxed when you use it, for example because it is soft.
  • comfortably — If you do something comfortably, you do it easily.
  • conferrable — to consult together; compare opinions; carry on a discussion or deliberation.
  • confirmable — Capable of being checked, verifiable.
  • conformable — corresponding in character; similar
  • conformably — With or in conformity; suitably; agreeably.
  • corned beef — Corned beef is beef which has been cooked and preserved in salt water.
  • counterbuff — a retaliatory blow
  • dobbs ferry — a town in SE New York.
  • dolabriform — shaped like an ax or a cleaver.
  • draft board — a board of civilians charged with registering, classifying, and selecting persons for U.S. military service.
  • ebola fever — Also called Ebola fever, Ebola hemorrhagic fever, Ebola virus disease. a usually fatal disease, a type of hemorrhagic fever, caused by the Ebola virus and marked by high fever, severe gastrointestinal distress, and bleeding.
  • enforceable — Capable of being enforced.
  • exboyfriend — Alternative form of ex-boyfriend.
  • fabrication — the act or process of fabricating; manufacture.
  • fabricators — Plural form of fabricator.
  • facebookers — Plural form of facebooker.
  • false labor — irregular contractions of the uterus prior to actual labor and without accompanying dilation of the cervix.
  • farnborough — a town in S England, in NE Hampshire: military base, with an aeronautical research centre. Pop: 57 147 (2001)
  • fast bowler — a bowler who characteristically delivers the ball rapidly
  • fauxbourdon — Music. a 15th-century compositional technique employing three voices, the upper and lower voices progressing an octave or a sixth apart while the middle voice extemporaneously doubles the upper part at a fourth below.
  • featherbone — a substitute for whalebone, made from the quills of domestic fowls.
  • febriferous — producing fever.
  • fetter bone — the great pastern bone of a horse. See under pastern (def 2).
  • fiberscopes — Plural form of fiberscope.
  • fibre optic — using or consisting of very thin flexible fibres of glass down which information modulated on light is carried
  • fibrination — (medicine) The state of acquiring or having an excess of fibrin.
  • fibroblasts — Plural form of fibroblast.
  • 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.
  • fibroplasia — the formation of fibrous tissue.
  • fibrousness — The state or quality of being fibrous.
  • fimbriation — fimbriate or fringed condition.
  • finger bowl — a small bowl to hold water for rinsing the fingers at table.
  • fingerboard — (of a violin, cello, etc.) the strip of wood on the neck against which the strings are stopped by the fingers.
  • firebombing — Present participle of firebomb.
  • first blood — the first killing or wounding in a fight or war
  • flashboards — Plural form of flashboard.
  • floorboards — Plural form of floorboard.
  • floral tube — a cylinder formed in some flowers by the fusion of the perianth and stamens, as in the daffodil or iris.
  • floribundas — Plural form of floribunda.
  • foam rubber — a light, spongy rubber, used for mattresses, cushions, etc.
  • footbreadth — a measurement equalling a breadth of a foot
  • footbridges — Plural form of footbridge.
  • forbearance — the act of forbearing; a refraining from something.
  • forbiddance — the act of forbidding.
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