14-letter words containing i, b, a
- expansion bend — a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level
- expansion bolt — a bolt that expands on tightening, enabling it to be secured into an unthreaded hole
- exploitability — The state or condition of being exploitable.
- extinguishable — Able to be extinguished.
- extra-base hit — any hit greater than a single; double, triple, or home run
- extractability — (uncountable) The condition of being extractable.
- extraembryonic — (medicine) Inside the womb, but outside the embryo.
- fabian society — a socialist organization founded in England in 1884, favoring the gradual spread of socialism by peaceful means.
- fabius maximus — (Quintus Fabius Maximus Verrucosus"Cunctator") 275–203 b.c, Roman statesman and general: defeated Hannibal's army by harassment without risking a pitched battle.
- fairy bluebird — any fruit-eating passerine bird of the genus Irena, of the East Indies, the males of the several species being characteristically black below and purple-blue above.
- fallen timbers — a battle site on the Maumee River, near present-day Maumee, Ohio, where a confederation of Indian tribes (Northwest Indian Confederation) was defeated by Gen. Anthony Wayne (1794): state park.
- 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.
- false beginner — a language student who has some knowledge of a language, but who needs to start again from the beginning
- falsifiability — to make false or incorrect, especially so as to deceive: to falsify income-tax reports.
- family butcher — a butcher's shop that belongs to a family, and in which family members work
- fashionability — observant of or conforming to the fashion; stylish: a fashionable young woman.
- featherbedding — the practice of requiring an employer to hire unnecessary employees, to assign unnecessary work, or to limit production according to a union rule or safety statute: Featherbedding forced the railroads to employ firemen on diesel locomotives.
- featherbrained — Alternative spelling of feather-brained.
- 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.
- filing cabinet — office: tall set of drawers
- 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.
- flabbergasting — to overcome with surprise and bewilderment; astound.
- 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 pitch — ground where soccer is played
- 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 as a bird — really free
- free vibration — the vibration of a structure that occurs at its natural frequency, as opposed to a forced vibration
- friar's balsam — a compound containing benzoin, mixed with hot water, and used as an inhalant to relieve colds and sore throats
- gabriel marcel — Gabriel [ga-bree-el] /ga briˈɛl/ (Show IPA), 1887–1973, French philosopher, dramatist, and critic.
- gabriel tellez — (Gabriel Téllez) 1571?–1648, Spanish dramatist.
- gallamine blue — a type of mordant dye
- gambling debts — debts acquired as a result of money spent gambling
- gambling house — a building for gambling, especially for a large number of betting games.
- gamma globulin — a protein fraction of blood plasma that responds to stimulation of antigens, as bacteria or viruses, by forming antibodies: administered therapeutically in the treatment of some viral diseases.
- garbologically — From the perspective of garbology.
- garden rubbish — organic refuse generated by gardening
- gastric bypass — a surgical procedure by which all or part of the stomach is circumvented by anastomosis to the small intestine, performed to overcome obstruction or in the treatment of morbid obesity.
- gay liberation — a political and social movement to combat legal and social discrimination against homosexuals.