11-letter words containing n, a, o, f, b
- forebearing — Present participle of forebear.
- four-banger — a four-cylinder engine.
- francophobe — Also, Francophobic. fearing or hating France, the French people, and French culture, products, etc.
- frank dobie — (James) Frank, 1888–1964, U.S. folklorist, educator, and author.
- fray bentos — a port in W Uruguay, on the River Uruguay: noted for meat-packing. Pop: 23 122 (2004 est)
- half-broken — past participle of break.
- labefaction — Deterioration or downfall.
- lifeboatman — a sailor qualified to take charge of a lifeboat or life raft.
- obfuscating — Present participle of obfuscate.
- obfuscation — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- off balance — If you are off balance, you are in an unsteady position and about to fall.
- 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.
- rubefaction — the act or process of making red, especially with a rubefacient.
- sonofabitch — an abusive term of address or of description
- subfraction — Mathematics. a number usually expressed in the form a/b. a ratio of algebraic quantities similarly expressed.
- tabefaction — the process of tabefying
- to be frank — You can say 'to be frank' or 'to be frank with you' to introduce a statement which is your honest opinion, especially when the person you are talking to might not like it.
- unfavorable — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unfavorably — not favorable; contrary; adverse: an unfavorable wind.
- unforceable — physical power or strength possessed by a living being: He used all his force in opening the window.
- unforgeable — to form by heating and hammering; beat into shape.