9-letter words containing f, r, o, b
- driftbolt — Also called driftpin. a spike having a round shank and used for fastening heavy timbers together.
- fabrikoid — a waterproof fabric made of cloth coated with pyroxylin
- fabulator — a person who fabulates, a story-teller
- fallboard — the hinged covering that protects a piano keyboard when it is not being played.
- favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- favorably — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- ferryboat — a boat used to transport passengers, vehicles, etc., across a river or the like.
- fibriform — of the form of a fiber or fibers.
- fibrinoid — having the characteristics of fibrin.
- fibrinous — the insoluble protein end product of blood coagulation, formed from fibrinogen by the action of thrombin in the presence of calcium ions.
- fibrocyte — an inactive fibroblast
- fibroline — a yarn made from waste products at cotton factories
- fibrolite — sillimanite.
- fibrously — In a fibrous manner.
- fire boss — a person who inspects a mine for the presence of noxious gases, dangerous roofs, and other hazards.
- fireboard — a board used to close a fireplace.
- firebombs — Plural form of firebomb.
- fireboxes — Plural form of firebox.
- firozabad — a city in Uttar Pradesh state, N central India.
- firstborn — first in the order of birth; eldest.
- flipboard — a piece of office equipment consisting of a board to which a flip chart or some other pad can be attached
- flour bin — a small container for flour
- flowerbed — A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
- fluoboric — containing the univalent group BF 4 − .
- foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
- foodborne — Transmitted through food.
- footboard — a board or small platform on which to support the foot or feet.
- footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
- forbearer — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbiddal — Lb archaic The act of forbidding something.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forbidder — One who forbids.
- forboding — Alternative form of foreboding.
- forceable — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- forebears — Usually, forebears. ancestors; forefathers.
- foreboded — Simple past tense and past participle of forebode.
- foreboder — (archaic) an oracle; one who tells the future.
- forebodes — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of forebode.
- forebrain — Also called prosencephalon. the anterior of the three primary divisions of the brain in the embryo of a vertebrate, or the part of the adult brain derived from this tissue including the diencephalon and telencephalon.
- forecabin — the forward cabin on a vessel
- forelimbs — Plural form of forelimb.
- forgeable — (metallurgy) That can be forged (shaped under heat and pressure).
- fork bomb — (programming) A particular species of wabbit that can be written in one line of C: main() {for(;;)fork();} or shell: $0 & $0 & on any Unix system, or occasionally created by an egregious coding bug. A fork bomb process "explodes" by recursively spawning copies of itself using the Unix system call "fork(2)". Eventually it eats all the process table entries and effectively wedges the system. Fortunately, fork bombs are relatively easy to spot and kill, so creating one deliberately seldom accomplishes more than to bring the just wrath of the gods down upon the perpetrator. See also logic bomb.
- forkballs — Plural form of forkball.
- formboard — a board or slab serving as a form for poured concrete.
- foulbrood — any of several bacterial diseases of honeybee larvae, characterized by the putrefying of body tissues.
- four bits — 50 cents.
- fox brush — the tail of a fox.
- framboise — raspberry.
- free-born — born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.