14-letter words containing f, l, o, b, e
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
- 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.
- land of beulah — (in Bunyan's Pilgrim's Progress) the peaceful land in which the pilgrim awaits the call to the Celestial City.
- 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.
- 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.
- moveable feast — a religious festival that occurs on a different date each year
- non-beneficial — conferring benefit; advantageous; helpful: the beneficial effect of sunshine.
- non-diffusible — capable of being diffused.
- 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 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 officer — a person appointed or elected to a governmental post.
- sanford b dole — Robert J(oseph) born 1923, U.S. politician: senator 1969–96.
- self-abandoned — lacking self-control; giving in to one's impulses.
- self-oblivious — unmindful; unconscious; unaware (usually followed by of or to): She was oblivious of his admiration.
- self-obsession — the state of being interested in oneself, one's happiness, motivations and interests to the exclusion of other things
- 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
- susceptible of — that gives a chance for; admitting; allowing
- 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
- thermoformable — having the ability to be shaped using heat and pressure
- 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.
- turbulent flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid varies irregularly.
- unforeknowable — not foreknowable
- unsaponifiable — to convert (a fat) into soap by treating with an alkali.