15-letter words containing f, o, t, b
- debathification — The process of removing former members of the ruling Bath party of Iraq from the military and civil office following the ousting of w Saddam Hussein.
- democratifiable — able to be made into a democracy
- dog's breakfast — a disorderly mixture; hodgepodge.
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- fallopian tubes — 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.
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- fine-tooth comb — a comb having narrow, closely set teeth.
- floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
- fob destination — FOB destination is a shipping term indicating that ownership of goods passes at delivery to their destination, and the seller has total responsibility until then.
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- football league — highest-level soccer competition
- football player — sportsperson: plays football
- football season — annual period when soccer is played
- forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
- forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
- go for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
- leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
- league football — rugby league football
- lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
- make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
- member function — A method in C++.
- member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
- microsoft basic — (language) (MS-BASIC) A dialect of BASIC from Microsoft, originally developed by Bill Gates in a garage back in the CP/M days. It was originally known as GWBasic, then QBASIC and finally MS-BASIC. When the MS-DOS operating system came out, it incorporated the GWBASIC.EXE or BASICA.EXE interpreters. GWBASIC ("Gee Whiz") incorporated graphics and a screen editor and was compatible with earlier BASICs. QBASIC was more sophisticated. Version 4.5 had a full screen editor, debugger and compiler. The compiler could also produce executable files but to run these a utility program (BRUN44.EXE) had to be present. Thus source code could be kept private. From DOS 5.0 or 6.0 onward, MS-BASIC was standard. Version 1.1 produced stand-alone executables and could display graphics.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- nanofabrication — the design and manufacture of products and structures, especially electronic devices, with dimensions measured in nanometers.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
- non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
- nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
- nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
- nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.