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15-letter words containing b, i, f, o

  • debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
  • founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
  • infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
  • man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • microsoft basic — (language)   (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • nanofabrication — the design and manufacture of products and structures, especially electronic devices, with dimensions measured in nanometers.
  • neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
  • non-beneficence — the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity.
  • non-falsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
  • non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
  • nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
  • nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
  • not a bit of it — You say not a bit of it to emphasize that something that you might expect to be the case is not the case.
  • not before time — If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.
  • objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
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