16-letter words containing n, a, o, f, b
- half-blind joint — a corner dovetail joint visible on one face only.
- intake of breath — When someone takes an intake of breath, they breathe in quickly and noisily, usually because they are shocked at something.
- job satisfaction — Job satisfaction is the pleasure that you get from doing your job.
- kingdom-of-nubia — a region in S Egypt and the Sudan, N of Khartoum, extending from the Nile to the Red Sea.
- knights of labor — a secret workingmen's organization formed in 1869 to defend the interests of labor.
- leave of absence — permission to be absent from duty, employment, service, etc.; leave.
- non-quantifiable — to determine, indicate, or express the quantity of.
- non-transferable — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- north battleford — a city in W central Saskatchewan, in central Canada.
- of human bondage — a novel (1915) by W. Somerset Maugham.
- on the back foot — at a disadvantage; outmanoeuvred or outclassed by an opponent
- performance bond — contract bond.
- platform-balance — a scale with a platform for holding the items to be weighed.
- pribilof islands — a group of islands in the Bering Sea, off SW Alaska, belonging to the US: the breeding ground of the northern fur seal. Area: about 168 sq km (65 sq miles)
- ramen profitable — If a startup business is ramen profitable, it is barely profitable, just enough to allow the founder to live on the cheapest diet.
- self-abandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- self-approbation — approval; commendation.
- self-elaboration — an act or instance of elaborating.
- self-lubrication — the process of becoming lubricated without external factors
- self-observation — an act or instance of noticing or perceiving.
- self-subjugation — the act, fact, or process of subjugating, or bringing under control; enslavement: The subjugation of the American Indians happened across the country.
- soft brown sugar — a type of moist sugar made by coating white sugar with dark molasses
- sole beneficiary — the only beneficiary
- subjectification — to make subjective.
- sulfocarbanilide — thiocarbanilide.
- tablets of stone — Stone is used in expressions such as set in stone and tablets of stone to suggest that an idea or rule is firm and fixed, and cannot be changed.
- unconfirmability — to establish the truth, accuracy, validity, or genuineness of; corroborate; verify: This report confirms my suspicions.
- unenforceability — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
- uniformed branch — the branch of a police force in which officers wear a uniform
- writ of subpoena — a legal document commanding the attendance in court, as a witness, of the person on whom it is served, under a penalty