12-letter words containing l, u, b, f
- fardel-bound — (of ruminants) having the food impacted in the third compartment of the stomach; costive; constipated.
- fiber bundle — a flexible bundle of optical glass that transmits images.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- flour beetle — any of several brown darkling beetles, especially of the genus Tribolium, that infest, breed in, feed on, and often pollute flour, stored grain, and other stored produce.
- fluorocarbon — any of a class of compounds produced by substituting fluorine for hydrogen in a hydrocarbon, and characterized by great chemical stability: used chiefly as a lubricant, refrigerant, fire extinguishing agent, and in industrial and other applications in which chemical, electrical, flame, and heat resistance is essential; banned as an aerosol propellant in the U.S. because of concern about ozone layer depletion.
- flutterballs — Plural form of flutterball.
- flutterboard — a kickboard.
- forebuilding — (architecture,historical) An outer defense work of a castle used to protect the entrance to the keep.
- fortruncible — A cross between Fortran and RUNCIBLE for the IBM 650. Listed in CACM 2(5):16 (May 1959).
- fosbury flop — a modern high-jumping technique whereby the jumper clears the bar headfirst and backwards
- frequentable — Accessible.
- full binding — a complete binding of a volume in any one material, generally leather.
- full-blooded — of unmixed ancestry; thoroughbred: a full-blooded Cherokee.
- fully booked — having no vacancies or spaces
- funambulator — a tightrope-walker; a funambulist
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- half-cup bra — a bra that covers three-quarters of the breasts rather than all of the breasts
- inconfutable — (obsolete) Not confutable.
- infibulation — the stitching together of the vulva, often after a clitoridectomy, leaving a small opening for the passage of urine and menstrual blood.
- infundibular — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- infundibulum — a funnel-shaped organ or part.
- infusibility — Incapability or difficulty of being fused, melted, or dissolved.
- insufferable — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- insufferably — not to be endured; intolerable; unbearable: their insufferable insolence.
- labour force — The labour force consists of all the people who are able to work in a country or area, or all the people who work for a particular company.
- lumbriciform — resembling a lumbricus; wormlike
- muscle fiber — one of the structural cells of a muscle.
- muscle fibre — any of the numerous elongated contractile cells that make up striated muscle
- neurofibrils — Plural form of neurofibril.
- non-fungible — (especially of goods) being of such nature or kind as to be freely exchangeable or replaceable, in whole or in part, for another of like nature or kind.
- out of plumb — not vertical
- plumbiferous — yielding or containing lead.
- poplar bluff — a city in SE Missouri.
- quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- quantifiably — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- shuffleboard — a game in which standing players shove or push wooden or plastic disks with a long cue toward numbered scoring sections marked on a floor or deck.
- soboliferous — bearing or producing soboles
- subfactorial — the number of ways a group of objects can be arranged so that none of the objects are in their original or correct place
- subfertility — below-average fertility
- trouble-free — not problematic
- troubleproof — not easily disturbed, disabled, injured, or put out of working order.
- tubuliferous — bearing or made up of tubules.
- tubulifloral — (of a plant) tubuliflorous
- unaffordable — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unbeneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- unconfinable — not able to be bound