16-letter words containing b, e, f, s
- flabbergastingly — Surprisingly, astonishingly or amazingly.
- flashbulb memory — the clear recollections that a person may have of the circumstances associated with a dramatic event
- flat-bed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
- flibbertigibbets — Plural form of flibbertigibbet.
- football special — a train service provided specially to transport football supporters to and from a match
- for all sb cares — You can use for all I care to emphasize that it does not matter at all to you what someone does.
- forbes-robertson — Sir Johnston, 1853–1937, English actor and theatrical manager.
- forbid the banns — to raise an objection to a marriage announced in this way
- forbush decrease — the sudden decrease in the intensity of cosmic rays after an increase in solar activity.
- four-masted brig — jackass bark (def 2).
- fraises des bois — wild strawberries
- fundamental bass — a bass consisting of the roots of the chords employed.
- gas blowoff line — A gas blowoff line is a safety device to control sudden increases in pressure.
- insufferableness — The state of being insufferable.
- irrefragableness — The quality or degree of being irrefragable.
- job's comforters — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- line of business — profession, trade: field
- lobe-finned fish — any fish that has rounded scales and lobed fins, as the coelacanth.
- make the best of — do what you can
- mossbauer effect — the phenomenon in which an atom in a crystal undergoes no recoil when emitting a gamma ray, giving all the emitted energy to the gamma ray, resulting in a sharply defined wavelength.
- non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- pass-band filter — band-pass filter
- pension benefits — the benefits that are paid to a person in accordance with his pension scheme
- permafrost table — the variable surface constituting the upper limit of permafrost. Compare frostline (def 2).
- prisoner of bill — (humour) (PoB) A derisory term, in use generally among Unix users, for anyone who uses Microsoft products either because they don't know there is anything better (i.e. Unix) or because they would be incapable of working anything more complex (i.e. Unix). The interesting and widespread presumption among users of the term is that (at least at the time of writing, 1998) using anything other than Unix or a Microsoft OS (whether VMS, Macintosh, Amiga) is so eccentric a choice as to be at least somewhat praiseworthy.
- raspberry sawfly — a black sawfly, Monophadnoides geniculatus, the larvae of which feed on the leaves of the raspberry and blackberry.
- remember oneself — to recover one's good manners after a lapse; stop behaving badly
- sabattier effect — the alteration of the image tones of a photographic print by briefly reexposing the negative after it has been partially developed.
- safe deposit box — A safe deposit box is a small box, usually kept in a special room in a bank, in which you can store valuable objects.
- safe-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
- scotch blackface — one of a Scottish breed of mountain sheep having a black face and growing long, coarse wool.
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
- self-lubricating — to apply some oily or greasy substance to (a machine, parts of a mechanism, etc.) in order to diminish friction; oil or grease (something).
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
- self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- self-subsistence — the state or fact of subsisting.
- sickness benefit — Sickness benefit is money that you receive regularly from the government when you are unable to work because of illness.
- soapberry family — the plant family Sapindaceae, characterized by chiefly tropical trees, shrubs, or herbaceous vines having compound leaves, clustered flowers, and berrylike, fleshy, or capsular fruit, and including the balloon vine, golden rain tree, litchi, and soapberry.
- sodium bisulfate — a colorless crystalline compound, NaHSO 4 , soluble in water: used in dyeing, in the manufacture of cement, paper, soap, and an acid-type cleaner.
- sodium bisulfite — Sodium bisulfite is a crystalline compound used as an antioxidant and stabilizing agent.
- software library — a collection of programs that are used to develop software
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- stalked puffball — a puffball-like mushroom of the genus Tulestoma, maturing in early winter.
- subjectification — to make subjective.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- sulfur butterfly — any of various yellow or orange butterflies of the family Pieridae.