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18-letter words containing f, e, b, r

  • fire and brimstone — When people talk about fire and brimstone, they are referring to hell and how they think people are punished there after death.
  • fire in your belly — If you say that someone has fire in their belly, you are expressing approval of them because they are energetic, enthusiastic, and have very strong feelings.
  • fire-and-brimstone — threatening punishment in the hereafter: a fire-and-brimstone sermon.
  • flat-bottomed rail — a rail having a cross section like an inverted T, with the top extremity enlarged slightly to form the head
  • football supporter — a person who supports a particular football team
  • for the time being — the system of those sequential relations that any event has to any other, as past, present, or future; indefinite and continuous duration regarded as that in which events succeed one another.
  • forget-me-not blue — a shade of blue similar to the shade of the flowers of a forget-me-not
  • forward compatible — forward compatibility
  • four-color problem — the problem, solved in 1976, of proving the theorem that any geographic map can be colored using only four colors so that no connected countries with a common boundary are colored the same color.
  • fragmentation bomb — a bomb designed to break into many small, high-velocity fragments when detonated.
  • fuller rose beetle — a beetle, Pantomorus godmani, that feeds on the leaves of roses as well as on those of citrus and other fruit trees.
  • great barrier reef — coral structure off Australian coast
  • handkerchief table — corner table.
  • have the better of — of superior quality or excellence: a better coat; a better speech.
  • house of burgesses — the assembly of representatives in colonial Virginia.
  • information bureau — an office where you can go to get information
  • informatory double — a double intended to inform one's partner that one has a strong hand and to urge a bid regardless of the strength of his or her hand.
  • isabella of france — 1292–1358, wife (1308–27) of Edward II of England, whom, aided by her lover, Roger de Mortimer, she deposed; mother of Edward III
  • lambeth conference — a convention of the bishops of the Anglican communion, held about every 10 years at Lambeth Palace to confer but not to define doctrine or to legislate on ecclesiastical matters.
  • lawrence of arabia — D(avid) H(erbert) 1885–1930, English novelist.
  • make a beeline for — head directly towards
  • manufacturing base — the manufacturing industries of an area or a country considered as a unit and a constituent part of the economy
  • member of congress — law: elected representative
  • milkweed butterfly — monarch butterfly.
  • mixed-flow turbine — a water turbine in which water flows radially and axially through the rotating vanes
  • neural tube defect — any of a group of congenital abnormalities involving the brain and spinal cord, including spina bifida and meningocele, caused by failure of the neural tube to close properly during embryonic development.
  • north bedfordshire — a city in Bedfordshire, in central England.
  • one of sb's number — One of your number is a member of your group.
  • rabbit's-foot fern — hare's-foot fern.
  • rabbit-foot clover — a plant, Trifolium arvense, having trifoliate leaves with narrow leaflets and fuzzy, cylindrical, grayish-pink flower heads.
  • rabbit-proof fence — a fence through which rabbits are unable to pass
  • range of stability — the angle to the perpendicular through which a vessel may be heeled without losing the ability to right itself.
  • retirement benefit — a payment made to a retired person
  • return-flue boiler — a fire-tube boiler having flues that collect the combustion gases at the end of the boiler opposite the fire door and pass them through the boiler to an uptake above the fire door.
  • schofield barracks — a town on central Oahu, in central Hawaii.
  • shrubby cinquefoil — a small shrub, Potentilla fruticosa, of the rose family, native to the Northern temperate region, having pinnate leaves and numerous, showy, bright-yellow flowers.
  • software backplane — (programming, tool)   A CASE framework from Atherton.
  • specrate_base_fp92 — (benchmark)   A variant of SPECrate_fp92 that reports "baseline" results, using stricter run rules.
  • subsistence farmer — a farmer who consumes most of the produce he grows, leaving little or nothing to be marketed
  • the better part of — a large part of
  • the bird has flown — the person in question has fled or escaped
  • tip of the iceberg — a large floating mass of ice, detached from a glacier and carried out to sea.
  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
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