15-letter words containing i, n, f, b
- 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
- nonsaponifiable — not capable of being saponified
- not a bit of it — You say not a bit of it to emphasize that something that you might expect to be the case is not the case.
- not before time — If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.
- objectification — to present as an object, especially of sight, touch, or other physical sense; make objective; externalize.
- office building — building containing offices
- one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
- out of business — If a shop or company goes out of business or is put out of business, it has to stop trading because it is not making enough money.
- perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
- self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
- self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
- self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
- snubfin dolphin — Australian dolphin with a small dorsal fin
- social benefits — the social welfare provision made available to those in need
- sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
- subprofessional — being below professional standards: subprofessional health care.
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
- think better of — to have a conscious mind, to some extent of reasoning, remembering experiences, making rational decisions, etc.
- tibetan mastiff — a heavy well-built dog of a Tibetan breed with a long thick coat and a bushy tail carried curled over its back, often used as a guard dog
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
- widow's benefit — (in the British National Insurance scheme) a former weekly payment made to a widow