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

  • football supporter — a person who supports a particular football team
  • for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • forget-me-not blue — a shade of blue similar to the shade of the flowers of a forget-me-not
  • forward compatible — forward compatibility
  • fragmentation bomb — a bomb designed to break into many small, high-velocity fragments when detonated.
  • from top to bottom — highest point to lowest
  • fuller rose beetle — a beetle, Pantomorus godmani, that feeds on the leaves of roses as well as on those of citrus and other fruit trees.
  • get off one's bike — to lose one's self-control
  • have the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
  • heat of combustion — the heat evolved when one mole of a substance is burnt in oxygen at constant volume
  • ifs, ands, or buts — a supposition; uncertain possibility: The future is full of ifs.
  • information bureau — an office where you can go to get information
  • informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
  • job classification — an arrangement of different types of employment within a company or industry, according to the skill, experience, or training required.
  • knight of the bath — a member of a knightly order founded by George I of England in 1725.
  • lambeth conference — a convention of the bishops of the Anglican communion, held about every 10 years at Lambeth Palace to confer but not to define doctrine or to legislate on ecclesiastical matters.
  • mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
  • north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
  • notifiable disease — any one of a number of infectious diseases of humans and animals, that must be reported to the public health authorities
  • oblique-slip fault — a fault on which the movement is along both the strike and the dip of the fault
  • political football — a political issue that is continually debated but has not yet been resolved
  • provably difficult — The set or property of problems for which it can be proven that no polynomial-time algorithm exists, only exponential-time algorithms.
  • put a bold face on — to seem bold or confident about
  • rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
  • rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
  • safety-deposit box — a lockable metal box or drawer, especially in a bank vault, used for safely storing valuable papers, jewelry, etc.
  • scottish blackface — a common breed of hardy mountain sheep having horns and a black face, kept chiefly on the mainland of Scotland
  • see the last of sb — not encounter sb anymore
  • significant symbol — a verbal or nonverbal gesture, as a word or smile, that has acquired a conventionalized meaning.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • sub-classification — to arrange in subclasses.
  • take a bite out of — If something takes a bite out of a sum of money, part of the money is spent or taken away in order to pay for it.
  • the back of beyond — a very remote place
  • the better part of — a large part of
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • the queen of sheba — a queen of the Sabeans, who visited Solomon (I Kings 10:1–13)
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • what has become of — If you wonder what has become of someone or something, you wonder where they are and what has happened to them.
  • wingback formation — single wingback formation.
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