12-letter words containing i, n, f, b
- definability — The quality of being definable.
- dibenzofuran — an organic compound (C12H8O) composed of two benzene rings fused to a central furan ring
- diffrangible — capable of being diffracted
- dumbfounding — Present participle of dumbfound.
- fabrications — Plural form of fabrication.
- falling band — a large, flat collar, usually trimmed with lace, worn by men in the 17th century.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- feebleminded — lacking the normal mental powers.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fellow being — if you refer to someone as a fellow being, you are emphasizing that you and they are human beings and have things in common
- ferroniobium — An important alloy of iron and niobium.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibrinogenic — producing fibrin.
- fibrinolysin — a proteolytic enzyme, formed in the blood from plasminogen, that causes the breakdown of the fibrin in blood clots.
- fibrinolysis — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibroadenoma — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- finance bill — a bill or act of a legislature to obtain funds for the public treasury.
- fines herbes — a mixture of finely chopped herbs, used to flavour omelettes, salads, etc
- fingerboards — Plural form of fingerboard.
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire balloon — a montgolfier.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- fission bomb — atomic bomb.
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flemish bond — a brickwork bond having alternate stretchers and headers in each course, each header being centered above and below a stretcher.
- flexibleness — The state or quality of being flexible.
- flinders bar — a bar of soft iron, mounted vertically beneath a compass to compensate for vertical magnetic currents.
- floating rib — one member of the two lowest pairs of ribs, which are attached neither to the sternum nor to the cartilages of other ribs.
- fly in amber — a strange relic or reminder of the past
- fly-by-night — not reliable or responsible, especially in business; untrustworthy: a fly-by-night operation.
- foot-binding — (formerly in China) the act or practice of tightly binding the feet of infant girls to keep the feet as small as possible.
- forbearingly — In a forbearing manner.
- forbiddingly — In a forbidding manner.
- forcibleness — The quality of being forcible.
- forebodingly — a prediction; portent.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- foreign bill — a bill of exchange drawn on a payer in one country by a maker in another.
- foreign body — object lodged where it does not belong
- foreign-born — born in a country other than that in which one resides.
- fort benning — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in W Georgia, S of Columbus; the largest infantry post in the U.S.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- franchisable — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.