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15-letter words containing a, d, r, i, f

  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • micromicrofarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • old father time — time personified
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • straightforward — going or directed straight ahead: a straightforward gaze.
  • strait of dover — a strait between SE England and N France, linking the English Channel with the North Sea. Width: about 32 km (20 miles)
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
  • take for a ride — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • track and field — athletics events
  • track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
  • trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control
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