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14-letter words containing b, e, f

  • out of the box — a container, case, or receptacle, usually rectangular, of wood, metal, cardboard, etc., and often with a lid or removable cover.
  • perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
  • 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
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • public welfare — state aid to the poor
  • purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
  • queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
  • rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
  • rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
  • reference book — a book containing useful facts or specially organized information, as an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, yearbook, etc.
  • reflexive verb — A reflexive verb is a transitive verb whose subject and object always refer to the same person or thing, so the object is always a reflexive pronoun. An example is 'to enjoy yourself', as in 'Did you enjoy yourself?'.
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
  • right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
  • 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.
  • self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
  • 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
  • strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
  • 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.
  • sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
  • surfer's knobs — a tumorlike nodule below a surfer's knee or on the upper area of the foot, caused by pressure on the skin and tissue exerted by the surfboard.
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • table football — a game based on soccer, played on a table with sets of miniature human figures mounted on rods allowing them to be tilted or spun to strike the ball
  • take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
  • the better off — those with more money
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • unforeknowable — not foreknowable
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