14-letter words containing f, a, b, l, e
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- 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
- football field — ground where soccer is played
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
- kabalega falls — rapids on the lower Victoria Nile, about 35 km (22 miles) east of Lake Albert, where the Nile drops 120 m (400 ft)
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- 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).
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- 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.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
- self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
- self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable