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14-letter words containing f, o, b, a

  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • buffalo beetle — the hairy larva of a carpet beetle (Anthrenus scrophulariae), harmful to furs and woolens
  • buffalo indian — a member of any of the American Indian tribes, as those of the Algonquian, Athabascan, Caddoan, Kiowa, Siouan, or Uto-Aztecan linguistic families, that formerly inhabited the Great Plains. All were more or less nomadic, following the buffalo, and were often in touch with one another so that the development among them of common culture traits is noticeable.
  • camouflageable — able to be camouflaged
  • coff's harbour — a seaport in E Australia.
  • combat fatigue — a psychoneurotic condition characterized by anxiety, irritability, depression, etc., often occurring after prolonged combat in warfare
  • comfortability — (of clothing, furniture, etc.) producing or affording physical comfort, support, or ease: a comfortable chair; comfortable shoes.
  • confabulations — Plural form of confabulation.
  • confirmability — the quality of being confirmable
  • conformability — Conformableness.
  • cubital furrow — (in certain insects) a crease, between the cubital and anal veins, along which the wing folds.
  • defibrillation — the application of an electric current to the heart to restore normal rhythmic contractions after the onset of atrial or ventricular fibrillation
  • defibrillators — Plural form of defibrillator.
  • discomfortable — an absence of comfort or ease; uneasiness, hardship, or mild pain.
  • disconformable — of or relating to a disconformity.
  • dogbane family — the plant family Apocynaceae, characterized by shrubs, trees, and herbaceous plants having milky and often poisonous juice, simple opposite leaves, often showy flowers, and fruit usually in dry pods, and including the dogbane, oleander, periwinkle, and plumeria.
  • double feature — a motion-picture program consisting of two films shown one after the other for the price of a single ticket.
  • drafting board — drawing board.
  • drop an f-bomb — to use the word fuck in a situation where it will cause great offence
  • effort bargain — a bargain in which the reward to an employee is based on the effort that the employee puts in
  • enforceability — The quality of being enforceable.
  • fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
  • fallopian tube — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
  • favourableness — The state or condition of being favourable.
  • fibroadenomata — a benign tumor originating from glandular tissue, as in the female breast.
  • fibrocartilage — a type of cartilage having a large number of fibers.
  • fiduciary bond — a bond filed by a fiduciary administering an estate as surety.
  • finnbogadottir — Vigdís [Icelandic vig-dees] /Icelandic vɪgˈdis/ (Show IPA), born 1930, Icelandic political leader: president 1980–96.
  • fissionability — capable of or possessing a nucleus or nuclei capable of undergoing fission: a fissionable nucleus; fissionable material.
  • flat back four — a set of four fullbacks in line formation
  • 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 match — a match played between two football teams
  • football pitch — ground where soccer is played
  • football pools — If you do the football pools, you take part in a gambling competition in which people try to win money by guessing the results of football matches.
  • force of habit — behavior occurring without thought and by virtue of constant repetition; habit.
  • foreseeability — to have prescience of; to know in advance; foreknow.
  • formidableness — The quality of being formidable.
  • forward buying — the purchase of merchandise in quantities exceeding demand
  • fraise du bois — a wild strawberry.
  • free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
  • freeboard deck — (on a cargo vessel) the uppermost deck officially considered to be watertight: used as the level from which the Plimsoll marks are measured.
  • gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
  • hats off to sb — If you say 'Hats off to someone', you are expressing admiration for them.
  • in sb's favour — If someone makes a judgment in your favour, they say that you are right about something.
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