18-letter words containing b, i, f, e
- great barrier reef — coral structure off Australian coast
- handkerchief table — corner table.
- heat of combustion — the heat evolved when one mole of a substance is burnt in oxygen at constant volume
- in the belief that — If you do one thing in the belief that another thing is true or will happen, you do it because you think, usually wrongly, that it is true or will happen.
- incapacity benefit — (in Britain) a regular government payment made to people who are unable to work for an extended period through disability
- information bureau — an office where you can go to get information
- informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
- invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
- isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
- knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
- lawrence of arabia — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- lifestyle business — a small business in which the owner is more anxious to pursue interests that reflect his or her lifestyle than to make more than a comfortable living
- make a beeline for — head directly towards
- manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
- milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
- mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
- 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
- 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
- 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.
- 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 beautiful game — football
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- 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.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.