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18-letter words containing f, b, a

  • de-objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
  • deferred liability — income received in advance and carried forward as a liability until the associated goods, services, or benefits are delivered
  • division of labour — a system of organizing the manufacture of an article in a series of separate specialized operations, each of which is carried out by a different worker or group of workers
  • fabric conditioner — a product used when washing clothes to make them feel softer
  • fall-back position — an alternative plan
  • fantasy basketball — imagination, especially when extravagant and unrestrained.
  • farmer-labor party — a political party in Minnesota, founded in 1920 and merged with the Democratic Party in 1944.
  • fascicular cambium — cambium that develops within the vascular bundles, producing secondary xylem and phloem.
  • fibonacci sequence — (mathematics)   The infinite sequence of numbers beginning 1, 1, 2, 3, 5, 8, 13, ... in which each term is the sum of the two terms preceding it. The ratio of successive Fibonacci terms tends to the golden ratio, namely (1 + sqrt 5)/2.
  • fibrocartilaginous — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fire and brimstone — When people talk about fire and brimstone, they are referring to hell and how they think people are punished there after death.
  • fire-and-brimstone — threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
  • flash butt welding — a method of welding metal edge-to-edge with a powerful electric flash followed by the application of pressure.
  • flat file database — (database)   A database containing a single table, stored in a single flat file, often in a human-readable format such as comma-separated values or fixed-width columns.
  • flat on one's back — lying supine
  • 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.
  • heat of combustion — the heat evolved when one mole of a substance is burnt in oxygen at constant volume
  • hydrofluorocarbons — Plural form of hydrofluorocarbon.
  • ifs, ands, or buts — a supposition; uncertain possibility: The future is full of ifs.
  • in the belief that — If you do one thing in the belief that another thing is true or will happen, you do it because you think, usually wrongly, that it is true or will happen.
  • incapacity benefit — (in Britain) a regular government payment made to people who are unable to work for an extended period through disability
  • 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.
  • invalidity benefit — (formerly, in the British National Insurance scheme) a weekly payment to a person who had been off work through illness for more than six months: replaced by incapacity benefit in 1995
  • 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
  • job classification — an arrangement of different types of employment within a company or industry, according to the skill, experience, or training required.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • 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.
  • notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
  • oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
  • political football — a political issue that is continually debated but has not yet been resolved
  • provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
  • put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
  • 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.
  • safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
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