14-letter words containing f, l, a, b, i
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- 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
- fluoboric acid — a clear, colorless liquid, HBF 4 , that ionizes abundantly in solution, used chiefly in the synthesis of fluoborates.
- fonthill abbey — a ruined Gothic Revival mansion in Wiltshire: rebuilt (1790–1810) for William Beckford by James Wyatt; the main tower collapsed in 1800 and, after rebuilding, again in 1827
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- football field — ground where soccer is played
- football pitch — ground where soccer is played
- foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
- formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
- friar's balsam — a compound containing benzoin, mixed with hot water, and used as an inhalant to relieve colds and sore throats
- giant puffball — a puffball, Calvatia gigantea, that is the largest of its kind, known to have grown to more than 5 feet (1.6 meters) in circumference.
- indefinability — The quality of being indefinable.
- indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
- infeasibleness — The quality of being infeasible.
- inflammability — capable of being set on fire; combustible; flammable.
- infrangibility — The quality of being infrangible.
- infundibulated — Funnel-shaped.
- interfibrillar — situated between fibrils.
- justifiability — capable of being justified; that can be shown to be or can be defended as being just, right, or warranted; defensible: justifiable homicide.
- labyrinth fish — any of several freshwater fishes of the order Labyrinthi, found in southeastern Asia and Africa, having a labyrinthine structure above each gill chamber enabling them to breathe air while out of water.
- lady bountiful — a wealthy lady in George Farquhar's The Beaux' Stratagem, noted for her kindness and generosity.
- lambda lifting — A program transformation to remove free variables. An expression containing a free variable is replaced by a function applied to that variable. E.g. f x = g 3 where g y = y + x x is a free variable of g so it is added as an extra argument: f x = g 3 x where g y x = y + x Functions like this with no free variables are known as supercombinators and are traditionally given upper-case names beginning with "$". This transformation tends to produce many supercombinators of the form f x = g x which can be eliminated by eta reduction and substitution. Changing the order of the parameters may also allow more optimisations. References to global (top-level) constants and functions are not transformed to function parameters though they are technically free variables. A closely related technique is closure conversion. See also Full laziness.
- 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).
- line of battle — a line formed by troops or ships for delivering or receiving an attack.
- lobelia family — the plant family Lobeliaceae (sometimes considered a subfamily, Lobelioideae, of the Campanulaceae, or bellflower family), typified by usually herbaceous plants having milky sap, simple alternate leaves, irregular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a capsule or berry, and including the cardinal flower, Indian tobacco, and lobelia.
- microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- non-refillable — (of a container of some kind) not capable of being used again by having more of something put inside
- nonfissionable — not able to undergo fission
- nonforfeitable — a fine; penalty.
- noninflammable — Not catching fire easily; not flammable.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- public affairs — (used with a plural verb) matters of general interest or concern, especially those dealing with current social or political issues.
- public welfare — state aid to the poor
- rectifiability — the quality or state of being rectifiable
- refrangibility — capable of being refracted, as rays of light.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- trafficability — the condition of soil or terrain with regard to its being traveled over, as by people, vehicles, or machinery.
- unclassifiable — that cannot be categorized
- unflappability — not easily upset or confused, especially in a crisis; imperturbable.
- unidentifiable — 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.
- unquantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.