15-letter words containing b, u, f, e
- 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.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- league football — rugby league football
- member function — A method in C++.
- mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- office building — building containing offices
- 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.
- out of the blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- 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.
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- self-subversive — Also, subversionary [suh b-vur-zhuh-ner-ee, -shuh-] /səbˈvɜr ʒəˌnɛr i, -ʃə-/ (Show IPA). tending or intending to subvert or overthrow, destroy, or undermine an established or existing system, especially a legally constituted government or a set of beliefs.
- strombuliferous — having organs coiled as spirals
- sub-post office — (in Britain) a post office run by a sub-postmaster or sub-postmistress as a self-employed agent for the Post Office
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- 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.
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable