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14-letter words containing f, b, a

  • a bag of bones — a lean creature
  • a bed of roses — a situation of comfort or ease
  • abiotic factor — a nonliving condition or thing, as climate or habitat, that influences or affects an ecosystem and the organisms in it: Abiotic factors can determine which species of organisms will survive in a given environment.
  • abortifacients — Plural form of abortifacient.
  • absorbefacient — a medicine or other agent that promotes absorption
  • afro-caribbean — Afro-Caribbean refers to people from the Caribbean whose ancestors came from Africa.
  • air-force blue — a greyish shade of blue that is the same colour as the uniform of the Royal Air Force and the air force of some other countries
  • angle of climb — the angle between the axis of motion of a climbing aircraft and the horizontal plane.
  • antifilibuster — a person or method in opposition to filibustering
  • arabian coffee — a tall, widely cultivated shrub (Coffea arabica) of the madder family, yielding coffee beans that are the world's chief source of commercially produced coffee: native to Africa but now present throughout the tropics, esp. in Brazil
  • arable farming — the growing of arable crops
  • as big as life — the condition that distinguishes organisms from inorganic objects and dead organisms, being manifested by growth through metabolism, reproduction, and the power of adaptation to environment through changes originating internally.
  • at first blush — when first seen; as a first impression
  • back and forth — If someone moves back and forth, they repeatedly move in one direction and then in the opposite direction.
  • back formation — the invention of a new word on the assumption that a familiar word is derived from it. The verbs edit and burgle were so created from editor and burglar
  • back of beyond — a very remote place
  • back of bourke — a remote area or place.
  • back-and-forth — backward and forward; side to side; to and fro: a back-and-forth shuttling of buses to the stadium; the back-and-forth movement of a clock's pendulum.
  • back-formation — the analogical creation of one word from another word that appears to be a derived or inflected form of the first by dropping the apparent affix or by modification.
  • backflap hinge — Building Trades. flap (def 20a).
  • backflow valve — a valve for preventing flowing liquid, as sewage, from reversing its direction.
  • backside-front — backend-to.
  • ball of muscle — a very strong, fit, or forceful person
  • balm of gilead — any of several trees of the burseraceous genus Commiphora, esp C. opobalsamum of Africa and W Asia, that yield a fragrant oily resin
  • balm-of-gilead — any of several plants of the genus Commiphora, especially C. opobalsamum and C. meccanensis, which yield a fragrant oleoresin.
  • balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • balsam of tolu — tolu
  • bancroft prize — one of a group of annual awards for literary achievement in American history and biography: administered by Columbia University.
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • baranof island — an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)
  • barium sulfate — an odorless, tasteless, white powder, BaSO4, insoluble in water: it is used as a paint pigment, as a filler for paper, textiles , etc., and as an opaque substance that is ingested to aid in making diagnostic X-rays of the stomach and intestine
  • barium sulfide — a gray or yellowish-green, water-soluble, poisonous powder, BaS, used chiefly as a depilatory and as an intermediate in the synthesis of pigments, especially lithopone.
  • barrel shifter — (hardware)   A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
  • battle fatigue — Battle fatigue is a mental condition of anxiety and depression caused by the stress of fighting in a war.
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • be gagging for — to be very eager to have or do something
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beautification — Making beautiful, beautifying, improving the appearance of something.
  • beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
  • betake oneself — to go; move
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • bezier surface — (graphics)   A surface defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics. A surface P(u, v), where u and v vary orthogonally from 0 to 1 from one edge of the surface to the other, is defined by a set of (n+1)*(m+1) "control points" (X(i, j), Y(i, j), Z(i, j)) for i = 0 to n, j = 0 to m.
  • bill of health — a certificate, issued by a port officer, that attests to the health of a ship's company
  • bill of lading — (in foreign trade) a document containing full particulars of goods shipped or for shipment
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • binding rafter — a timber for supporting rafters between their extremities, as a purlin.
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information

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