18-letter words containing f, a, b, r
- flat-bottomed rail — a rail having a cross section like an inverted T, with the top extremity enlarged slightly to form the head
- football supporter — a person who supports a particular football team
- forward compatible — forward compatibility
- fragmentation bomb — a bomb designed to break into many small, high-velocity fragments when detonated.
- furnishing fabrics — fabrics used to make and cover furniture
- great barrier reef — coral structure off Australian coast
- handkerchief table — corner table.
- have the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
- hydrofluorocarbons — Plural form of hydrofluorocarbon.
- ifs, ands, or buts — a supposition; uncertain possibility: The future is full of ifs.
- information bureau — an office where you can go to get information
- informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
- isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
- lambeth conference — a convention of the bishops of the Anglican communion, held about every 10 years at Lambeth Palace to confer but not to define doctrine or to legislate on ecclesiastical matters.
- lawrence of arabia — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- make a beeline for — head directly towards
- manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
- neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
- provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
- rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
- rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
- rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- run in sb's family — If a characteristic runs in someone's family, it often occurs in members of that family, in different generations.
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- software backplane — (programming, tool) A CASE framework from Atherton.
- specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark) A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
- sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
- subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
- the better part of — a large part of
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
- too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
- transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
- wingback formation — single wingback formation.