15-letter words containing b, o, n, e, f
- football season — annual period when soccer is played
- 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.
- 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
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- 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.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- member function — A method in C++.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- non-beneficence — the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity.
- non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- 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.
- nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
- nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
- nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- 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
- one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
- out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- snowball effect — a process of continuously accelerating change in size, importance, etc
- social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- to sb's defence — If you come to someone's defence, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
- to sb's defense — If you come to someone's defense, you help them by doing or saying something to protect them.
- unbosom oneself — to tell or reveal one's feelings, secrets, etc.
- under sb's roof — If something happens under your roof, it happens in your home.
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow