9-letter words containing o, f, b, e
- fireboard — a board used to close a fireplace.
- firebombs — Plural form of firebomb.
- fireboxes — Plural form of firebox.
- fishbones — Plural form of fishbone.
- floatable — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- floggable — that ought to be flogged; deserving of flogging
- flowerbed — A part of a garden or park where flowers are grown.
- focusable — Capable of being focused.
- foilborne — (of a vessel) moving on the water on hydrofoils, with the hull out of the water.
- foodborne — Transmitted through food.
- footbrake — a brake operated by applying pressure to a foot pedal
- forbearer — to refrain or abstain from; desist from.
- forbidden — a past participle of forbid.
- forbidder — One who forbids.
- 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).
- framboise — raspberry.
- free-born — born free, rather than in slavery, bondage, or vassalage.
- freeboard — Nautical. the distance between the level of the water and the upper surface of the freeboard deck amidships at the side of a hull: regulated by the agencies of various countries according to the construction of the hull, the type of cargo carried, the area of the world in which it sails, the type of water, and the season of the year. Compare load line. (on a cargo vessel) the distance between the uppermost deck considered fully watertight and the official load line. the portion of the side of a hull that is above the water.
- freebooty — plunder; loot; spoils.
- fretboard — a fingerboard with frets, as on a guitar.
- frobisher — Sir Martin, 1535?–94, English navigator and explorer.
- frostbelt — Snowbelt.
- frostbite — injury to any part of the body after excessive exposure to extreme cold, sometimes progressing from initial redness and tingling to gangrene.
- full bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- full-bore — moving or operating at the greatest speed or with maximum power.
- furbelows — Plural form of furbelow.
- fuzzboxes — Plural form of fuzzbox.
- globefish — puffer (def 2).
- go before — precede
- hoofbeats — Plural form of hoofbeat.
- ibuprofen — a white powder, C 13 H 18 O 2 , used especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and osteoarthritis as an anti-inflammatory, analgesic, and antipyretic.
- job offer — an offer of employment
- knife box — a box, often ornamental and sometimes closed with a lid, for containing table knives.
- kobe beef — meat from the Japanese cattle (Kobe cattle) which are specially raised to produce a beef that is highly prized for its extreme tenderness.
- life buoy — any of variously formed buoyant devices for supporting a person fallen into the water.
- life-boat — a double-ended ship's boat, constructed, mounted, and provisioned so as to be readily able to rescue and maintain persons from a sinking vessel.
- lifeblood — the blood, considered as essential to maintain life: to spill one's lifeblood in war.
- lifeboats — Plural form of lifeboat.
- noble fir — a fir, Abies procera, of the northwestern U.S., which may grow to a height of 250 feet (76 meters).
- nonbelief — (religion) Failure to believe; lack of religion.
- obfuscate — to confuse, bewilder, or stupefy.
- objectify — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.