10-letter words containing t, b
- flamboyant — strikingly bold or brilliant; showy: flamboyant colors.
- flame bait — (messaging) A Usenet posting or other message intended to trigger a flame war, or one that invites flames in reply.
- flash tube — a gaseous discharge tube designed to emit extremely short bursts of very intense light
- flat broke — having no money
- fleabeetle — Alternative form of flea beetle.
- flight bag — a lightweight shoulder bag designed for carrying sundries aboard an aircraft.
- flight box — a tool box containing tools and other equipment and necessaries for a person who flies radio-controlled model planes
- float bowl — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
- floatboard — paddle1 (def 6).
- fluoborate — a salt of fluoboric acid.
- fly button — a button on the fly of a pair of trousers
- fodderbeet — sugar beet used as fodder.
- foot brake — a brake that is operated by pressure on a foot pedal, as in an automobile.
- footballer — a football player, especially a member of a college or professional team.
- footboards — Plural form of footboard.
- footbridge — a bridge intended for pedestrians only.
- forbearant — Forbearing.
- forebitter — a sea shanty
- fort bliss — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center NE of El Paso in W Texas.
- fort boise — a fort formerly near Boise, in SW Idaho: an important post on the Oregon Trail.
- fort bragg — a military reservation and U.S. Army training center in S central North Carolina NW of Fayetteville.
- forthbring — (obsolete) To bring forth; bring out; produce.
- freebooter — a person who goes about in search of plunder; pirate; buccaneer.
- friability — easily crumbled or reduced to powder; crumbly: friable rock.
- frobnicate — /frob'ni-kayt/ (Possibly from frobnitz, and usually abbreviated to frob, but "frobnicate" is recognised as the official full form). To manipulate or adjust, to tweak. One frequently frobs bits or other 2-state devices. Thus: "Please frob the light switch" (that is, flip it), but also "Stop frobbing that clasp; you'll break it". One also sees the construction "to frob a frob". Usage: frob, twiddle, and tweak sometimes connote points along a continuum. "Frob" connotes aimless manipulation; "twiddle" connotes gross manipulation, often a coarse search for a proper setting; "tweak" connotes fine-tuning. If someone is turning a knob on an oscilloscope, then if he's carefully adjusting it, he is probably tweaking it; if he is just turning it but looking at the screen, he is probably twiddling it; but if he's just doing it because turning a knob is fun, he's frobbing it. The variant "frobnosticate" has also been reported.
- frog's-bit — an aquatic, floating plant, Hydrocharis morsus-ranae, of Eurasia, having thick, roundish, spongy leaves.
- frontbench — Alternative form of front bench.
- frost boil — frost heave.
- frostbites — Plural form of frostbite.
- frostbound — (of ground) hardened by frost
- fruit beer — a beer or ale to which fruit or fruit syrup has been added for a second fermentation.
- fruit bowl — dish for displaying fruit
- fuck about — to act in a stupid or aimless manner
- full blast — a sudden and violent gust of wind: Wintry blasts chilled us to the marrow.
- fusibility — the quality of being fusible or convertible from a solid to a liquid state by heat.
- fussbudget — a fussy or needlessly fault-finding person.
- gabapentin — (medicine) A medication, originally used for the treatment of epilepsy but now used to relieve pain.
- gabblement — a gabbling noise
- gamba stop — an organ stop with a tone resembling that of stringed instruments
- gangbuster — a law-enforcement officer who specializes in breaking up organized crime, often by forceful or sensational means.
- garburator — (Canada) An electric device between the drain and the U-bend in a kitchen sink that shreds food waste into small enough bits to be washed down the sink.
- gastro-pub — A gastro-pub is a pub that serves very good food.
- gastropubs — Plural form of gastropub.
- gatlinburg — a town in E Tennessee: resort.
- geobotanic — phytogeography.
- get behind — support: a cause, etc.
- get better — recover
- gettysburg — a borough in S Pennsylvania: Confederate forces defeated in a crucial battle of the Civil War fought near here on July 1–3, 1863; national cemetery and military park.
- ghost crab — a whitish crab, Ocypode albicans, of sandy beaches from the eastern coast of the U.S. to Brazil.
- giant crab — a large, deep-water Japanese spider crab, Macrocheira kaempferi, sometimes measuring 11 feet (3.4 meters) across from claw to claw.