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14-letter words containing f, a, b, i, n

  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
  • featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
  • finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
  • flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
  • flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
  • fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
  • food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
  • giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
  • indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
  • indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
  • infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
  • inflammability — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
  • infrangibility — The quality of being infrangible.
  • infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
  • interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
  • king of beasts — the lion.
  • labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
  • lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
  • lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
  • left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
  • line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
  • man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
  • no fixed abode — If someone has no fixed abode, they are homeless.
  • non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
  • non-refillable — (of a container of some kind) not capable of being used again by having more of something put inside
  • nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
  • nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
  • prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
  • saint boniface — Saint, pope a.d. 608–615.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • son of a bitch — a contemptible or thoroughly disagreeable person; scoundrel.
  • subinfeudation — the granting of a portion of an estate by a feudal tenant to a subtenant, held from the tenant on terms similar to those of the grant to the tenant.
  • subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
  • transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
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