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18-letter words containing f, b

  • house of burgesses — the assembly of representatives in colonial Virginia.
  • 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.
  • lifestyle business — a small business in which the owner is more anxious to pursue interests that reflect his or her lifestyle than to make more than a comfortable living
  • 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
  • member of congress — law: elected representative
  • milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
  • mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
  • 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.
  • north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
  • 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
  • one of sb's number — One of your number is a member of your group.
  • 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.
  • retirement benefit — a payment made to a retired person
  • return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
  • rufous hummingbird — a reddish-brown hummingbird, Selasphorus rufus, of western North America.
  • 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.
  • schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
  • significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark)   A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • sub-saharan africa — the region of Africa to the south of the Sahara desert
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • take a bite out of — If something takes a bite out of a sum of money, part of the money is spent or taken away in order to pay for it.
  • the back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the beautiful game — football
  • the better part of — a large part of
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