14-letter words containing f, e, r, b, a
- enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- farmers branch — a city in NE Texas.
- favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
- fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flabberghasted — Simple past tense and past participle of flabberghast.
- flat-bed press — a printing press in which a flat bed holding the printing form moves against a rotating cylinder that carries the paper.
- 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
- force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
- 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.
- frequency band — band2 (def 9).
- half-submerged — under the surface of water or any other enveloping medium; inundated.
- hybrid warfare — a military strategy in which conventional warfare is integrated with tactics such as covert operations and cyberattacks
- 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
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- 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.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- 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
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- 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.
- subinfeudatory — a person who holds by subinfeudation.
- sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
- thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure