18-letter words containing b, e, f
- neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
- north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
- notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
- oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
- one of sb's number — One of your number is a member of your group.
- put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
- rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
- rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
- rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- retirement benefit — a payment made to a retired person
- return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
- safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
- see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
- shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
- software backplane — (programming, tool) A CASE framework from Atherton.
- specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark) A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- take a bite out of — If something takes a bite out of a sum of money, part of the money is spent or taken away in order to pay for it.
- the back of beyond — a very remote place
- the beautiful game — football
- the better part of — a large part of
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
- tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
- to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
- too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
- what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.