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15-letter words containing a, f, l

  • (at) full blast — at full speed or capacity
  • a crock of gold — Gold is a valuable, yellow-colored metal that is used for making jewelry and ornaments, and as an international currency.
  • a false economy — If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
  • a full-time job — If you describe a regular activity or task as a full-time job, you mean that it takes up so much of your time it is like doing a paid job.
  • a heart of gold — If you say that someone has a heart of gold, you are emphasizing that they are very good and kind to other people.
  • a small fortune — a very high price or cost
  • acanthus family — the plant family Acanthaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, clusters of tubular bracted flowers, and seeds sometimes dispersed by exploding fruit, including the acanthus, caricature, and shrimp plant.
  • accounting file — (operating system)   A file which holds records of the resources used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins.
  • achilles reflex — ankle jerk.
  • african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
  • aftershave balm — a soothing lotion for application to the face after shaving
  • alan f. shugart — (person)   The man who founded Shugart Associates and later co-founded Seagate Technology. Alan Shugart left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?] and took a break from the disk-drive business. In 1979, he and Finis Conner founded a new company that at first was called Shugart Technology and later Seagate Technology.
  • alfred e. smithAdam, 1723–90, Scottish economist.
  • algebra of sets — a nonempty collection of sets having the property that the union of two sets of the collection is a set of the collection and the complement of each set of the collection is a set in the collection.
  • all of a doodah — excited; agitated
  • all of a sudden — If something happens all of a sudden, it happens quickly and unexpectedly.
  • all-flying tail — a type of aircraft tailplane in which the whole of the tailplane is moved for control purposes
  • alta california — a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.
  • altar of repose — a pedestal or niche upon which the sacraments are preserved from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday.
  • amalgam filling — a dental filling made of amalgam
  • amaranth family — the plant family Amaranthaceae, typified by herbaceous, often weedy plants having alternate or opposite leaves and small, chaffy flowers without petals in brightly colored dense clusters, including the cockscomb, pigweed, and amaranth.
  • amery ice shelf — an ice barrier in Antarctica, in the SW Indian Ocean, bordered by Enderby Land on the N and American Highland on the W.
  • angel food cake — a light, spongy, white cake made with egg whites and no shortening
  • angle of attack — the acute angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the undisturbed relative airflow
  • angle of repose — the maximum angle to the horizontal at which rocks, soil, etc, will remain without sliding
  • anti-federalism — U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Antifederal party.
  • antifashionable — not conforming to mainstream fashion
  • antifederalists — Plural form of antifederalist.
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • artificial feel — a system, used in aircraft that have fully powered control surfaces, providing the pilot with simulated aerodynamic forces on the controls
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificial life — (algorithm, application)   (a-life) The study of synthetic systems which behave like natural living systems in some way. Artificial Life complements the traditional biological sciences concerned with the analysis of living organisms by attempting to create lifelike behaviours within computers and other artificial media. Artificial Life can contribute to theoretical biology by modelling forms of life other than those which exist in nature. It has applications in environmental and financial modelling and network communications. There are some interesting implementations of artificial life using strangely shaped blocks. A video, probably by the company Artificial Creatures who build insect-like robots in Cambridge, MA (USA), has several mechanical implementations of artificial life forms. See also evolutionary computing, Life.
  • artificial lift — Artificial lift is any method of increasing flow from a well.
  • artificial turf — any of various synthetic, carpetlike materials made to resemble turf and used as a playing surface for football and baseball fields, to cover patios, etc.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • asian influenza — pandemic influenza caused by a strain of the influenza virus first isolated in Singapore in 1957
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at full stretch — If you are at full stretch, your arm is straight and extended as far as possible, usually because you are trying to reach something that is almost too far away.
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • avian influenza — an acute, usually fatal viral disease of chickens and other domestic and wild birds except pigeons, characterized by sudden onset of symptoms including fever, swollen head and neck, bluish-black comb and wattle, and difficult respiration.
  • baja california — peninsula in Mexico, between the Pacific & the Gulf of California: divided into a northern state (Baja California), 27,071 sq mi (70,114 sq km), pop. 1,661,000, cap. Mexicali; and a southern state (Baja California Sur), 28,447 sq mi (73,677 sq km), pop. 318,000, cap. La Paz
  • ballpark figure — approximate number
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.

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