15-letter words containing a, f, l, y, o
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
- myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
- noninflammatory — Not accompanied by or associated with inflammation.
- noninflationary — Not inflationary; not likely to cause economic inflation.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
- olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
- olfactory tract — a long narrow triangular band of white tissue originating in the olfactory bulb and extending back to the point at which its fibres enter the base of the cerebrum
- overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
- phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence
- quality-of-life — affecting the quality of urban life: such quality-of-life crimes as fare-beating and graffiti writing.
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- royal air force — aerial branch of British military
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
- the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
- to fly the flag — If you fly the flag, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
- to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
- unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
- yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.