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13-letter words containing f, o, t, b

  • defibrination — the act or process of defibrinating
  • deformability — Deformability is the degree to which applying a force can make a particle or solid change shape.
  • faculty board — the governing body of a faculty
  • fantabulously — In a fantabulous manner; fantastically, wonderfully.
  • farm-to-table — noting or relating to fresh, locally sourced food sold to local consumers or restaurants: farm-to-table meats and seasonal vegetables.
  • festoon blind — a window blind consisting of vertical rows of horizontally gathered fabric that may be drawn up to form a series of ruches
  • filibusterous — resembling a filibuster or the actions of a filibuster
  • flag football — a form of touch football in which the ball-carrier's progress is stopped when an opponent pulls a flag from the ball-carrier's pocket or belt.
  • flat-bottomed — (of boats) having a flat bottom.
  • flatbed lorry — a lorry with a flat platform for its body
  • float chamber — Automotive. the bowl-shaped section of a carburetor in which a reserve of fuel is maintained, the fuel level being regulated by a float.
  • floating debt — short-term government borrowing, esp by the issue of three-month Treasury bills
  • floating ribs — the eleventh and twelfth pairs of ribs, not attached to the breastbone or to other ribs but only to the vertebrae
  • flower beetle — any of numerous, usually brightly colored beetles, as of the families Malachiidae and Dasytidae, that live on flowers and are predaceous on other insects.
  • flutterboards — Plural form of flutterboard.
  • foerstner bit — a bit for drilling blind holes, guided from the rim rather than from the center to permit it to enter the wood at an oblique angle.
  • fontainebleau — a town in N France, SE of Paris: famous palace, long a favorite residence of French kings; extensive forest.
  • fooling about — the act of speaking or acting in a playful, teasing, or jesting manner
  • foot the bill — pay the costs
  • 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 the birds — any warm-blooded vertebrate of the class Aves, having a body covered with feathers, forelimbs modified into wings, scaly legs, a beak, and no teeth, and bearing young in a hard-shelled egg.
  • 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.
  • forthbringing — Present participle of forthbring.
  • fruiting body — an organ that produces spores; fructification.
  • full-bottomed — (of a wig) long at the back
  • funambulation — the act of walking on a tightrope; funambulism
  • funambulatory — relating to tightrope-walking
  • get rid of sb — If you get rid of someone who is causing problems for you or who you do not like, you do something to prevent them affecting you any more, for example by making them leave.
  • 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.
  • gottlob frege — (person, history, philosophy, mathematics, logic, theory)   (1848-1925) A mathematician who put mathematics on a new and more solid foundation. He purged mathematics of mistaken, sloppy reasoning and the influence of Pythagoras. Mathematics was shown to be a subdivision of formal logic.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • jacob's staff — Astronomy. cross-staff.
  • lobster shift — Also called lobster trick. dogwatch (def 2).
  • loft building — a building of several floors with large areas of unobstructed space, originally rented out for light industrial purposes and now frequently converted to residential occupancy.
  • 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.
  • myelofibrotic — of, relating to or affected by myelofibrosis
  • myofibroblast — (cytology) A cell that is intermediate between a fibroblast and smooth muscle.
  • nimble-footed — able to move the feet agilely and neatly
  • nonfilterable — incapable of being filtered
  • nonprofitable — Not profitable; not making profit.
  • oblique fault — a fault that runs obliquely to, rather than parallel to or perpendicular to, the strike of the affected rocks
  • off the books — of or relating to a book or books: the book department; a book salesman.
  • off-the-books — not recorded in account books or not reported as taxable income.
  • offertory box — the box or container where worshippers' put their offerings (usually money)
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