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15-letter words containing a, f, l

  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • pilgrim fathers — the Pilgrims (of Plymouth Colony)
  • pine leaf aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
  • plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
  • plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
  • 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.
  • pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
  • popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
  • preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
  • preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • 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.
  • prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
  • principal focus — focal point (def 1).
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • 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.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
  • puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
  • pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
  • 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.
  • quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • 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
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
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