14-letter words containing b, e, f, s
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fermentescible — capable of causing fermentation
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- 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.
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- foster brother — a boy brought up with another child of different parents.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- free as a bird — really free
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- funny business — improper or unethical conduct, as deception or trickery: He won't stand for any funny business here.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- inflexibleness — The quality or state of being inflexible; inflexibility; rigidity; firmness.
- 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.
- 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
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
- observer force — a force deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
- perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
- queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- 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.
- seebeck effect — thermoelectric effect.
- 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-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
- self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
- self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.