14-letter words containing f, e, b, r, i
- fiddler beetle — a black scarab beetle, Eupoecila australasiae, having markings resembling a violin.
- fifth republic — the republic established in France in 1958, the successor to the Fourth Republic.
- fighter-bomber — an aircraft that combines the functions of a fighter and a bomber.
- finger trouble — trouble caused by operator error, such as striking the wrong key
- first republic — the republic established in France in 1792 and replaced by the First Empire in 1804.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- 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
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- forbidden city — a walled section of Peking, built in the 15th century, containing the imperial palace and other buildings of the imperial government of China.
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- forcible entry — entry into a building by force, eg by forcing a lock
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- fredericksburg — a city in NE Virginia, on the Rappahannock River: scene of a Confederate victory 1862.
- 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
- fringe benefit — any of various benefits, as free life or health insurance, paid holidays, a pension, etc., received by an employee in addition to regular pay.
- front side bus — (hardware) (FSB) The bus via which a processor communicates with its RAM and chipset; one half of the Dual Independent Bus (the other half being the backside bus). The L2 cache is usually on the FSB, unless it is on the same chip as the processor [example?]. In PCI systems, the PCI bus runs at half the FSB speed. Altering the FSB speed and the multiplier ratio are the two main ways of overclocking processors.
- heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- injury benefit — money paid to someone who has sustained an injury
- interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- man-made fibre — a type of fibre that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- neurofibromata — a benign neoplasm composed of the fibrous elements of a nerve.
- non-refillable — (of a container of some kind) not capable of being used again by having more of something put inside
- nonfinite verb — a verb form that does not indicate person or number; in English, the infinitive and participles.
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- 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
- prefabrication — to fabricate or construct beforehand.
- press briefing — a meeting called by an organization, government, etc, to inform the press of something
- public officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- purkinje fiber — any of the specialized cardiac muscle fibers forming a network in the ventricular walls that conduct electric impulses responsible for the contractions of the ventricles.
- rat-bite fever — either of two relapsing febrile diseases, widely distributed geographically, caused by infection with Streptobacillus moniliformis or Spirillum minor and transmitted by rats.
- 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.
- restiform body — a cordlike bundle of nerve fibers lying on each side of the medulla oblongata and connecting it with the cerebellum.
- right of abode — If someone is given the right of abode in a particular country, they are legally allowed to live there.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- self-described — to tell or depict in written or spoken words; give an account of: He described the accident very carefully.
- strike benefit — money paid to strikers by a union to enable them to subsist during a strike.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- transfer orbit — the flight path of a space vehicle moving from a nearly circular orbit to one with different parameters.