13-letter words containing f, a, s, b
- fibromuscular — (anatomy) Of or pertaining to both fibrous and muscular tissue.
- fibrovascular — composed of fibrous and conductive tissue, as in the vascular systems of higher plants: a fibrovascular bundle.
- first baseman — the player whose position is first base.
- first chamber — the parliament of the Netherlands, consisting of an upper chamber (First Chamber) and a lower chamber (Second Chamber)
- fishing banks — a place where fish are abundant, as off Newfoundland
- flabbergasted — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabbergaster — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabergasting — Present participle of flabergast.
- flatbed press — a printing machine on which the type forme is carried on a flat bed under a revolving paper-bearing cylinder
- floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
- fluorocarbons — Plural form of fluorocarbon.
- flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- fusible metal — any of various alloys, as of bismuth, lead, and tin, that melt at temperatures as low as 160°F (70°C), making them useful in various safety devices.
- gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- ineffableness — The quality or state of being ineffable.
- infallibilism — the principle of papal infallibility
- infeasibility — not feasible; impracticable.
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- metabisulfite — (inorganic chemistry) The oxyanion of sulfur S2O52- or any salt containing this ion.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- new braunfels — a city in S Texas, near San Antonio.
- rabbit's foot — the foot of a rabbit, especially the left hind foot carried as a good-luck charm.
- refried beans — fried mashed beans
- scabbard fish — any of several marine fishes having a long, compressed, silvery body, especially a cutlassfish, Trichiurus lepturus, of the western Atlantic.
- sea butterfly — any member of the gastropod order Pteropoda, shelled marine mollusks so called for their ability to swim using winglike extensions of the foot.
- self-absorbed — preoccupied with one's thoughts, interests, etc.
- self-assembly — Self-assembly is used to refer to furniture and other goods that you buy in parts and that you have to put together yourself.
- self-betrayal — to deliver or expose to an enemy by treachery or disloyalty: Benedict Arnold betrayed his country.
- specbase_fp92 — A variant of SPECfp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
- sub-franchise — a privilege of a public nature conferred on an individual, group, or company by a government: a franchise to operate a bus system.
- tablespoonful — the amount a tablespoon can hold.
- transferrable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- transformable — to change in form, appearance, or structure; metamorphose.
- unfalsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- unfashionable — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- unfashionably — in an unfashionable manner
- unforeseeable — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- unforeseeably — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- unjustifiable — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- unjustifiably — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.