14-letter words containing b, a, s, f
- discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
- disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- free as a bird — really free
- friar's balsam — a compound containing benzoin, mixed with hot water, and used as an inhalant to relieve colds and sore throats
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hats off to sb — If you say 'Hats off to someone', you are expressing admiration for them.
- in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
- king of beasts — the lion.
- labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
- self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
- subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.