12-letter words containing t, b, i
- factorisable — Alternative spelling of factorizable.
- factorizable — (mathematics, of an integer or polynomial etc) Able to be factorized.
- fatigability — susceptible to fatigue.
- favorability — The quality or degree of being viewed favorably.
- featherbrain — a foolish or giddy person; scatterbrain.
- febrifacient — producing fever.
- feeding tube — nasogastric tubing
- fertilizable — Capable of being fertilized.
- fiber optics — the branch of optics that deals with the transmission of light through transparent fibers, as in the form of pulses for the transmission of data or communications, or through fiber bundles for the transmission of images.
- fiberization — the process or practice of breaking into fibres
- fibre optics — optical fibre
- fibrillating — Present participle of fibrillate.
- fibrillation — the formation of fibrils.
- fibrinolytic — the disintegration or dissolution of fibrin, especially by enzymatic action.
- fibroblastic — a cell that contributes to the formation of connective tissue fibers.
- fibromatosis — (pathology) The presence of multiple fibromas.
- fibrous root — a root, as in most grasses, having numerous, very fine branches of approximately the same length.
- figurability — the quality of being figurable
- file cabinet — A file cabinet is a piece of office furniture, usually made of metal, which has drawers in which files are kept.
- filibustered — Simple past tense and past participle of filibuster.
- filibusterer — A person who filibusters.
- fillibusters — Plural form of fillibuster.
- filtrability — the quality or extent of being filtrable
- fippenny bit — the Spanish half real, the value of which was about six cents.
- fire blanket — a large blanket-like piece of fire-resistant material such as fibreglass used in smothering a fire
- firebreather — A performer who creates fireballs by breathing a fine mist of fuel over an open flame.
- fishing boat — vessel: for fishing
- fit the bill — If you say that someone or something fits the bill or fills the bill, you mean that they are suitable for a particular job or purpose.
- flabagasting — Present participle of flabagast.
- flabellation — the act of fanning a wound to keep it cool
- flammability — easily set on fire; combustible; inflammable.
- float bridge — a bridge, as from a pier to a boat, floating at one end and hinged at the other to permit loading and unloading at any level of water.
- floatability — capable of floating; that can be floated.
- 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-by-light — aircraft control through systems operated by optical fibres rather than mechanical rods
- 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.
- forgeability — (metallurgy) The quality or degree of being forgeable.
- fort belvoir — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in NE Virginia on the Potomac.
- 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).
- frangibility — The state or quality of being frangible.
- friction rub — the sound, heard through a stethoscope, made by the rubbing together of the two inflamed layers of pericardium in patients with pericarditis or of pleura in patients with pleurisy
- frigate bird — any of several predacious seabirds of the genus Fregata, having fully webbed feet.
- frigatebirds — Plural form of frigatebird.
- fruit basket — a basket containing a variety of fruits sent as a gift
- funambulists — Plural form of funambulist.
- functionable — functional (def 3).
- gaithersburg — a town in central Maryland.
- gaming table — a table used for gambling, especially one designed with a game board and slots for chips.