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14-letter words containing b, i, f

  • bottom-feeding — the activities of a bottom feeder.
  • branch officer — (in the British navy since 1949) any officer who holds warrant
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • bridge fluting — (on the stem of a drinking glass) flutes or facets continuing onto the underside of the bowl.
  • brief of title — abstract of title
  • briefing paper — a document providing relevant facts and information
  • budget deficit — the amount by which government expenditure exceeds income from taxation, customs duties, etc, in any one fiscal year
  • buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
  • bullion fringe — a thick gold or silver wire or fringed cord used as a trimming, as on military uniforms
  • burnt offering — a sacrificial offering burnt, usually on an altar, to honour, propitiate, or supplicate a deity
  • butterfingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • childbed fever — puerperal fever.
  • climbing frame — A climbing frame is a structure that has been made for children to climb and play on. It consists of metal or wooden bars joined together.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • combining form — A combining form is a word that is used, or used with a particular meaning, only when joined to another word. For example, '-legged' as in 'four-legged' and '-fold' as in 'fivefold' are combining forms.
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
  • conformability — Conformableness.
  • council bluffs — city in SW Iowa, across the Missouri River from Omaha, Nebr.: pop. 58,000
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • daisy fleabane — a North American composite plant, Erigeron annuus, having hairy stems and numerous, small, daisylike flowers with narrow white rays.
  • death benefits — Death benefits are the amount of money that an insurance policy will pay upon the death of the person whose life is being insured.
  • declassifiable — Suitable to be declassified.
  • defensive back — a defender positioned off the line of scrimmage for the purpose of covering pass receivers and tackling runners who elude linemen and linebackers.
  • defibrillating — Present participle of defibrillate.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • deflagrability — the state or quality of being deflagrable
  • differentiable — capable of being differentiated.
  • diffuse nebula — nebula (def 1a).
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • dumbfoundingly — In a dumbfounding manner.
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • f distribution — a continuous distribution obtained from the ratio of two chi-square distributions and used esp to test the equality of the variances of two normally distributed variances
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
  • fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
  • fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
  • fallopian tube — 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.
  • false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
  • falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
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