15-letter words containing f, i, b
- 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.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- francis bushman — Francis X(avier) 1883–1966, U.S. film actor.
- 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.
- fresnel biprism — biprism.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- 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
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
- infeasible path — dead code
- infinite baffle — a loudspeaker enclosure that totally separates sound emanating from the rear of the speaker cone from sound emanating in front, so as to prevent mutual interference.
- inflammableness — The quality of being inflammable.
- infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- justifiableness — Justifiability.
- life membership — the fact or condition of being a life member
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
- man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
- member function — A method in C++.
- microsoft basic — (language) (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- nanofabrication — the design and manufacture of products and structures, especially electronic devices, with dimensions measured in nanometers.
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
- non-beneficence — the doing of good; active goodness or kindness; charity.
- non-falsifiable — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
- nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
- nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
- nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
- not a bit of it — You say not a bit of it to emphasize that something that you might expect to be the case is not the case.