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14-letter words containing f, b, l

  • lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
  • manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
  • moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
  • myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
  • nfld & lab — Newfoundland and Labrador
  • non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
  • non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
  • non-refillable — (of a container of some kind) not capable of being used again by having more of something put inside
  • nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
  • nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
  • noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
  • olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
  • olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
  • on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
  • perfectibilism — the belief in the perfectibility of human nature
  • perfectibilist — (predominantly in relation to the Illuminati) a person who believes that a given thing, usually human nature, is perfectible
  • perfectibility — capable of becoming or of being made perfect; improvable.
  • performability — the quality of being performable
  • placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
  • public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
  • public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
  • public welfare — state aid to the poor
  • rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
  • reflexive verb — A reflexive verb is a transitive verb whose subject and object always refer to the same person or thing, so the object is always a reflexive pronoun. An example is 'to enjoy yourself', as in 'Did you enjoy yourself?'.
  • refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
  • sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
  • sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
  • self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
  • self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
  • self-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
  • self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
  • self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
  • self-publicist — someone who is skilled at promoting him or herself
  • self-published — published independently by the author: self-published books.
  • self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
  • snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
  • snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
  • sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
  • susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
  • table football — a game based on soccer, played on a table with sets of miniature human figures mounted on rods allowing them to be tilted or spun to strike the ball
  • take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
  • thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
  • total football — an attacking style of play, popularized by the Dutch national team of the 1970s, in which there are no fixed positions and every outfield player can join in the attack
  • touch football — an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.
  • tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
  • trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
  • turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
  • unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
  • unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
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