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15-letter words containing f, b, i

  • britneyfication — the effect on clothes and fashions of following the revealing styles favoured by the US pop singer Britney Spears (born 1981)
  • brownfield site — a disused site envisaged for redevelopment
  • buffalo soldier — (formerly, especially among American Indians) a black soldier.
  • buffer solution — a solution to which a salt of a weak acid or base has been added
  • bug fix release — (programming)   A release which introduces no new features, but which merely aims to fix bugs in previous releases. All too commonly new bugs are introduced at the same time.
  • bureau of mines — a division of the Department of the Interior, created in 1910, that studies the nation's mineral resources and inspects mines.
  • business office — the office where the financial transactions, bookkeeping, etc. for a firm or institution are carried on
  • butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
  • butterfly chair — a lightweight chair consisting of a piece of canvas, leather, etc. slung from a framework of metal bars
  • carbon fixation — the process by which plants assimilate carbon from carbon dioxide in the atmosphere to form metabolically active compounds
  • centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
  • chief constable — A Chief Constable is the officer who is in charge of the police force in a particular county or area in Britain.
  • circular buffer — (programming)   An area of memory used to store a continuous stream of data by starting again at the beginning of the buffer after reaching the end. A circular buffer is usually written by one process and read by another. Separate read and write pointers are maintained. These are not allowed to pass each other otherwise either unread data would be overwritten or invalid data would be read. A circuit may implement a hardware circular buffer.
  • city of bristol — a port and industrial city in SW England, mainly in Bristol unitary authority, on the River Avon seven miles from its mouth on the Bristol Channel: a major port, trading with America, in the 17th and 18th centuries; the modern port consists chiefly of docks at Avonmouth and Portishead; noted for the Clifton Suspension Bridge (designed by I. K. Brunel, 1834) over the Avon gorge; Bristol university (1909) and University of the West of England (1992). Pop: 420 556 (2001)
  • combat fatigues — the uniform worn by soldiers when fighting
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • configurability — The property of being configurable.
  • cystic fibrosis — Cystic fibrosis is a serious disease of the glands which usually affects children and can make breathing difficult.
  • debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
  • deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
  • defined-benefit — denoting an occupational pension scheme that guarantees a specified payout, usually based on an employee's final salary and years of service
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • diffrangibility — the power or capability of being diffracted
  • donnybrook fair — a fair which until 1855 was held annually at Donnybrook, County Dublin, Ireland, and which was famous for rioting and dissipation.
  • embalming fluid — a liquid used to treat a dead body, which contains preservatives to retard putrefaction
  • enfant terrible — If you describe someone as an enfant terrible, you mean that they are clever but unconventional, and often cause problems or embarrassment for their friends or families.
  • fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
  • fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
  • fallopian tubes — 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.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
  • fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
  • finger alphabet — a series of shapes made by the fingers that indicate letters of an alphabet and can be used in fingerspelling for the deaf
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flibbertigibbet — a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
  • fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
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