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15-letter words containing t, o, b, e, f

  • football league — highest-level soccer competition
  • football player — sportsperson: plays football
  • football season — annual period when soccer is played
  • forbidden fruit — the fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil, tasted by Adam and Eve against God's prohibition. Gen. 2:17; 3:3.
  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
  • fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
  • four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
  • fourth republic — the republic established in France in 1945 and replaced by the Fifth Republic in 1958.
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • get the best of — to surpass, defeat, or outwit; better
  • ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
  • gift of the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
  • grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
  • greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • league football — rugby league football
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • make a habit of — If you make a habit of doing something, you do it regularly or often.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • non-rectifiable — able to be rectified.
  • nonquantifiable — not capable of being quantified
  • nontransferable — Not transferable; not able to be transferred.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • 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.
  • one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
  • order of battle — the organization or hierarchy of military forces in preparation for a battle.
  • 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.
  • out of the blue — the pure color of a clear sky; the primary color between green and violet in the visible spectrum, an effect of light with a wavelength between 450 and 500 nm.
  • post office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
  • post-office box — (in a post office) a locked compartment into which the mail of a box renter is put to be called for. Abbreviation: POB, P.O.B.
  • power breakfast — If business people have a power breakfast, they go to a restaurant early in the morning so that they can have a meeting while they eat breakfast.
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
  • see the back of — to be rid of
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-combustion — the act or process of burning.
  • self-compatible — able to be fertilized by its own pollen.
  • self-exhibition — an exhibiting, showing, or presenting to view.
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