13-letter words containing f, o, b, a
- football game — soccer match
- for sb's part — When you are describing people's thoughts or actions, you can say for her part or for my part, for example, to introduce what a particular person thinks or does.
- for sb's sake — When you do something for someone's sake, you do it in order to help them or make them happy.
- forced labour — labour done because of force; compulsory labour
- formidability — causing fear, apprehension, or dread: a formidable opponent.
- fort campbell — a military reservation in SW Kentucky and NW Tennessee, NW of Clarksville, Tenn., and SW of Hopkinsville, Ky.
- fort dearborn — a former U.S. fort on the site of Chicago, 1803–37.
- francis bacon — Francis (Baron Verulam, Viscount St. Albans) 1561–1626, English essayist, philosopher, and statesman.
- free on board — law: delivered by ship free of charge to buyer
- frobisher bay — an inlet of the Atlantic in NE Canada, in the SE coast of Baffin Island
- fuel air bomb — a type of bomb that spreads a cloud of gas, which is then detonated, over the target area, causing extensive destruction
- full of beans — the edible nutritious seed of various plants of the legume family, especially of the genus Phaseolus.
- fume cupboard — vent used in a laboratory
- funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
- funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
- go to bat for — Sports. the wooden club used in certain games, as baseball and cricket, to strike the ball. a racket, especially one used in badminton or table tennis. a whip used by a jockey. the act of using a club or racket in a game. the right or turn to use a club or racket.
- graffiti-bomb — Military. a projectile, formerly usually spherical, filled with a bursting charge and exploded by means of a fuze, by impact, or otherwise, now generally designed to be dropped from an aircraft.
- gulf of gabès — an inlet of the Mediterranean on the E coast of Tunisia
- habit of mind — If someone has a particular habit of mind, they usually think in that particular way.
- habit-forming — tending to cause or encourage addiction, especially through physiological dependence: habit-forming drugs.
- heaven forbid — You say 'Heaven forbid!' to emphasize that you very much hope that something will not happen.
- herb of grace — rue2 .
- herb-of-grace — rue2 .
- hill of beans — something of trifling value; virtually nothing at all: The problem didn't amount to a hill of beans.
- in sb's favor — If someone makes a judgment in your favor, they say that you are right about something.
- in-capable of — not capable.
- inconformable — Obsolete form of unconformable.
- jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
- kalambo falls — an archaeological site at the southeastern end of Lake Tanganyika, on the Zambia-Tanzania border, that has yielded one of the longest continuous cultural sequences in sub-Saharan Africa, beginning more than 100,000 years b.p. and characterized in the earliest levels by evidence of fire use and some simple wooden implements of Lower Paleolithic, or Acheulean, humans.
- labor of love — work done for the sake of one's own enjoyment or of benefit to others rather than for material rewards: He coached amateur baseball teams as a labor of love.
- mandibuliform — Having the form of a mandible; - said especially of the maxill\u00e6 of an insect when hard and adapted for biting.
- microfilmable — Suitable for storage on microfilm.
- modifiability — to change somewhat the form or qualities of; alter partially; amend: to modify a contract.
- movable feast — a religious feast that does not occur on the same date each year.
- myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
- neurofeedback — The presentation of realtime feedback on brainwave activity, as measured by sensors on the scalp, sometimes offered as a means of therapy.
- neurofibromas — Plural form of neurofibroma.
- non-favorable — characterized by approval or support; positive: a favorable report.
- non-frangible — easily broken; breakable: Most frangible toys are not suitable for young children.
- nonbeneficial — Not beneficial; that produces no benefit.
- nondeferrable — Not deferrable.
- nonfilterable — incapable of being filtered
- nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
- nonrefillable — Not refillable; unable to be refilled.
- nonrefundable — an amount refunded.
- oblique fault — a fault that runs obliquely to, rather than parallel to or perpendicular to, the strike of the affected rocks
- office bearer — a person who holds an office, as in a society, company, club, etc; official
- optical fiber — optical fibre
- optical fibre — (communications) (fibre optics, FO, US "fiber", light pipe) A plastic or glass (silicon dioxide) fibre no thicker than a human hair used to transmit information using infra-red or even visible light as the carrier (usually a laser). The light beam is an electromagnetic signal with a frequency in the range of 10^14 to 10^15 Hertz. Optical fibre is less susceptible to external noise than other transmission media, and is cheaper to make than copper wire, but it is much more difficult to connect. Optical fibres are difficult to tamper with (to monitor or inject data in the middle of a connection), making them appropriate for secure communications. The light beams do not escape from the medium because the material used provides total internal reflection. See also FDDI, Optical Carrier n, SONET.
- orbitofrontal — Located in the frontal lobes above the orbits of the eyes.