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15-letter words containing f, e, b, r

  • center halfback — Field Hockey. the player in the middle among the halfbacks.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • combined forces — the forces of two or more countries, fighting together
  • comfort blanket — a blanket that a young child is very attached to
  • comfortableness — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • comma butterfly — an orange-brown European vanessid butterfly, Polygonia c-album, with a white comma-shaped mark on the underside of each hind wing
  • conformableness — The state or quality of being conformable.
  • cornflower blue — a deep vivid blue, like that of the typical blooms of a cornflower
  • deerfield beach — a town in S Florida.
  • democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
  • dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
  • 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.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • feather banding — decorative banding of veneer or inlay having the grain laid diagonally to the grain of the principal surface.
  • ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
  • ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • 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.
  • football player — sportsperson: plays football
  • 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
  • founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • francis turbine — a water turbine designed to produce high flow from a low head of pressure: used esp in hydroelectric power generation
  • free-tailed bat — any of various small, swift, insect-eating bats of the family Molossidae, common in warm climates, having thick, leathery ears and a tail that projects well beyond the tail membrane.
  • french mulberry — a shrub, Callicarpa americana, of the verbena family, of the south-central U.S. and the West Indies, having violet-colored fruit and bluish flowers.
  • fresnel biprism — biprism.
  • grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
  • greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
  • high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
  • hit the buffers — to finish or be stopped, esp unexpectedly
  • i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
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