14-letter words containing f, l, a, b
- 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.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- leaf butterfly — any of various butterflies of the genus Kallima, of southern Asia, the East Indies, and Australia, having wings that resemble dead leaves.
- leaf-nosed bat — any of various New and Old World bats, as of the families Phyllostomatidae, Rhinolophidae, and Hipposideridae, having a leaflike flap of skin at the tip of the nose.
- 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
- leave feedback — If a guest leaves feedback, they tell you if they enjoyed their stay and what could be improved.
- 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).
- left-hand buoy — a distinctive buoy marking the side of a channel regarded as the left or port side.
- 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.
- manufacturable — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- microfibrillar — Of or pertaining to microfibrils.
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- myofibroblasts — Plural form of myofibroblast.
- nfld & lab — Newfoundland and Labrador
- 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.
- olfactory bulb — the enlarged terminal part of each olfactory lobe from which the olfactory nerve originates.
- olfactory lobe — the anterior part of each cerebral hemisphere, involved with olfactory functions.
- on sb's behalf — If you do something on someone's behalf, you do it for that person as their representative.
- performability — the quality of being performable
- placebo effect — a reaction to a placebo manifested by a lessening of symptoms or the production of anticipated side effects.
- 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.
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
- sb will go far — If you say that someone will go far, you mean that they will be very successful in their career.
- self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
- self-abasement — humiliation of oneself, especially as a result of guilt, shame, or the like.
- self-stability — the state or quality of being stable.
- snowball fight — game: throwing balls of snow
- snowflake baby — a baby born following the transfer of a surplus embryo produced during the in-vitro fertilization of one woman to the womb of another woman who was not a cell donor
- sufferableness — the quality or condition of being sufferable
- table football — a game based on soccer, played on a table with sets of miniature human figures mounted on rods allowing them to be tilted or spun to strike the ball
- take sb's life — If someone takes another person's life, they kill them. If someone takes their own life, they kill themselves.
- thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
- total football — an attacking style of play, popularized by the Dutch national team of the 1970s, in which there are no fixed positions and every outfield player can join in the attack
- touch football — an informal variety of football in which the touching, usually with both hands, of a ball-carrier by a member of the opposing team results in a down.
- tower of babel — an ancient city in the land of Shinar in which the building of a tower (Tower of Babel) intended to reach heaven was begun and the confusion of the language of the people took place. Gen. 11:4–9.
- 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.
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- 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.