18-letter words containing f, l, a, b
- lawrence of arabia — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
- make a beeline for — head directly towards
- neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
- notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
- oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
- political football — a political issue that is continually debated but has not yet been resolved
- provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
- put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
- rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
- range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
- run in sb's family — If a characteristic runs in someone's family, it often occurs in members of that family, in different generations.
- schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
- scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
- see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
- significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
- software backplane — (programming, tool) A CASE framework from Atherton.
- sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
- the beautiful game — football
- the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
- too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.