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

  • 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
  • refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
  • 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
  • repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
  • 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.
  • rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • 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.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • 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
  • start of header — (character)   (SOH) mnemonic for ASCII 1.
  • 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.
  • tar and feather — any of various dark-colored viscid products obtained by the destructive distillation of certain organic substances, as coal or wood.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • 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.
  • toreador fresco — a mural (c1500 b.c.) from Minoan Crete.
  • 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.
  • trade reference — a reference in which one trader gives his opinion as to the creditworthiness of another trader in the same trade, esp to a supplier
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • tree of sadness — night jasmine (def 1).
  • turn a deaf ear — pretend not to hear
  • unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
  • unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
  • waterfall model — (programming)   A software life-cycle or product life-cycle model, described by W. W. Royce in 1970, in which development is supposed to proceed linearly through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration and maintenance. The Waterfall Model is considered old-fashioned or simplistic by proponents of object-oriented design which often uses the spiral model instead. Earlier phases are sometimes called "upstream" and later ones "downstream". Compare: iterative model.
  • waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
  • well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
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