14-letter words containing f, b, a
- double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
- drafting board — drawing board.
- drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
- effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- 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.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- 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.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- 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
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- 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
- football match — a match played between two football teams
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- free as a bird — really free
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- friar's balsam — a compound containing benzoin, mixed with hot water, and used as an inhalant to relieve colds and sore throats
- 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.
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.