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14-letter words containing f, s

  • balsam of peru — an aromatic balsam that is obtained from the tropical South American leguminous tree Myroxylon pereirae and is similar to balsam of Tolu
  • balsam of tolu — tolu
  • banker's draft — A banker's draft is the same as a bank draft.
  • baptismal font — a large bowl for baptismal water, usually mounted on a pedestal
  • baranof island — an island off SE Alaska, in the western part of the Alexander Archipelago. Area: 4162 sq km (1607 sq miles)
  • barium sulfate — an odorless, tasteless, white powder, BaSO4, insoluble in water: it is used as a paint pigment, as a filler for paper, textiles , etc., and as an opaque substance that is ingested to aid in making diagnostic X-rays of the stomach and intestine
  • barium sulfide — a gray or yellowish-green, water-soluble, poisonous powder, BaS, used chiefly as a depilatory and as an intermediate in the synthesis of pigments, especially lithopone.
  • barrel shifter — (hardware)   A hardware device that can shift or rotate a data word by any number of bits in a single operation. It is implemented like a multiplexor, each output can be connected to any input depending on the shift distance.
  • basket-of-gold — a yellow-flowered perennial plant (Alyssum saxatile, now more properly Aurinia saxatilis) of the crucifer family, often used in rock gardens
  • basso profundo — (esp in operatic solo singing) a singer with a very deep bass voice
  • battle of wits — If you refer to a situation as a battle of wits, you mean that it involves people with opposing aims who compete with each other using their intelligence, rather than force.
  • beaufort scale — an international scale of wind velocities ranging for practical purposes from 0 (calm) to 12 (hurricane force). In the US an extension of the scale, from 13 to 17 for winds over 64 knots, is used
  • beneficialness — the state of being beneficial
  • benzosulfimide — saccharin.
  • beside oneself — If you are beside yourself with anger or excitement, you are extremely angry or excited.
  • betake oneself — to go; move
  • betray oneself — to reveal one's true character, intentions, etc
  • bezier surface — (graphics)   A surface defined by mathematical formulae, used in computer graphics. A surface P(u, v), where u and v vary orthogonally from 0 to 1 from one edge of the surface to the other, is defined by a set of (n+1)*(m+1) "control points" (X(i, j), Y(i, j), Z(i, j)) for i = 0 to n, j = 0 to m.
  • biceps femoris — See under biceps.
  • bill of rights — A Bill of Rights is a written list of citizens' rights which is usually part of the constitution of a country.
  • binary fission — asexual reproduction in unicellular organisms by division into two daughter cells
  • bioinformatics — the branch of information science concerned with large databases of biochemical or pharmaceutical information
  • biscuit-firing — the first firing given to pottery, before it is glazed
  • blanket finish — a finish so close that a blanket would cover all the contestants involved
  • blow off steam — water in the form of an invisible gas or vapor.
  • blue-arsed fly — a blowfly; bluebottle
  • body of christ — the Christian Church
  • bosworth field — the site, two miles south of Market Bosworth in Leicestershire, of the battle that ended the Wars of the Roses (August 1485). Richard III was killed and Henry Tudor was crowned king as Henry VII
  • bottom fishing — investing in low-priced shares that show prospects of recovery or in shares that are low-priced because of a general market decline in the hope of making a profit
  • bracket fungus — any saprotroph or parasitic fungus of the basidiomycetous family Polyporaceae, growing as a shelflike mass (bracket) from tree trunks and producing spores in vertical tubes in the bracket
  • bradford score — a measure of the amount of time during which an employee is absent from work, based on assigning a number of points according to the frequency and length of absences
  • brandy snifter — snifter (def 1).
  • brass farthing — something of little or no value
  • break of serve — the act or instance of breaking an opponent's service
  • breakfast club — a service that provides a breakfast for children who arrive early at school
  • breakfast food — any prepared cereal for breakfast
  • breakfast room — a room set aside for serving and eating breakfast, esp in a hotel or guesthouse
  • breakfast show — a radio or television broadcast that airs around breakfast time
  • breakfast time — Breakfast time is the period of the morning when most people have their breakfast.
  • breast-feeding — to nurse (a baby) at the breast; suckle.
  • burschenschaft — a students' fraternity, originally one concerned with Christian ideals, patriotism, etc
  • butterfly bush — buddleia
  • butterfly fish — any small tropical marine percoid fish of the genera Chaetodon, Chelmon, etc, that has a deep flattened brightly coloured or strikingly marked body and brushlike teeth: family Chaetodontidae
  • candlesnuffers — Plural form of candlesnuffer.
  • careers office — a room or building in which vocational advice can be obtained from a Careers Officer and which often also has books, leaflets, etc on careers
  • carousel fraud — the practice of importing goods from a country where they are not subject to VAT, selling them with VAT added, then deliberately not paying the VAT to the government
  • case framework — A set of products and conventions that allow CASE tools to be integrated into a coherent environment.
  • catch sight of — to make out by means of the eyes; discern; see
  • center of mass — the point in a body or system of bodies at which the entire mass may be assumed to be concentrated
  • centre of mass — the point at which the mass of a system could be concentrated without affecting the behaviour of the system under the action of external linear forces
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