14-letter words containing f, e, b, r
- 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
- freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- 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.
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- 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.
- labour of love — If you do something as a labour of love, you do it because you really want to and not because of any reward you might get for it, even though it involves hard work.
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- leafcutter bee — any of various solitary bees of the genus Megachile that nest in soil or rotten wood, constructing the cells in which they lay their eggs from pieces of leaf
- 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
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- 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.
- observer force — a force deployed to an area of conflict to observe proceedings
- of one's birth — The country, town, or village of your birth is the place where you were born.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- perfect number — a positive number that is equal to the sum of all positive integers that are submultiples of it, as 6, which is equal to the sum of 1, 2, and 3.
- 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
- post-breakfast — the first meal of the day; morning meal: A hearty breakfast was served at 7 a.m.
- 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
- reference book — a book containing useful facts or specially organized information, as an encyclopedia, dictionary, atlas, yearbook, etc.
- 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.
- robusta coffee — a coffee tree, Coffea canephora, native to western tropical Africa and cultivated in warm regions of the Old World.
- sacrifice bunt — a bunt made by the batter so that a base runner is advanced while the batter is put out
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.