15-letter words containing a, f, r
- (at) first hand — from the original source; directly
- 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 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
- a straight face — If you manage to keep a straight face, you manage to look serious, although you want to laugh.
- accessory fruit — a fruit having enlarged accessory structures in addition to those formed from the ovary, as the strawberry, in which the fleshy tissue is the enlarged receptacle and the true fruits are the small, dry achenes borne on its surface
- achilles reflex — ankle jerk.
- act of congress — a law that has been passed by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the president; if the president has chosen to veto the bill, it can be passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress
- adhesive factor — the ratio of the force that can be exerted on driving wheels with full traction to the weight on the driving wheels, usually expressed as a percentage.
- afars and issas — French Territory of the, a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
- affaire d'amour — a love affair
- affine geometry — the branch of geometry dealing with affine transformations.
- affirmativeness — The property of being affirmative.
- african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
- africanized bee — a hybrid of African and European honeybees, developed in Brazil and known for its disease resistance and superior honey production
- after a fashion — If you say that something was done after a fashion, you mean that it was done, but not very well.
- afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
- aftershave balm — a soothing lotion for application to the face after shaving
- age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
- agree to differ — to end an argument amicably while maintaining differences of opinion
- air force cross — a U.S. Air Force decoration awarded for extraordinary heroism in action
- aircraft hangar — a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft
- 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. smith — Adam, 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- america firster — a member or supporter of the America First Committee.
- 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.
- andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
- anfractuosities — Plural form of anfractuosity.
- angle of repose — the maximum angle to the horizontal at which rocks, soil, etc, will remain without sliding
- anne of austria — 1601–66, wife of Louis XIII of France and daughter of Philip III of Spain: regent of France (1643–61) for her son Louis XIV
- anne of denmark — 1574–1619, wife (from 1589) of James I of England and VI of Scotland
- anti-conformist — a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
- anti-federalism — U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Antifederal party.
- antifederalists — Plural form of antifederalist.
- antiferromagnet — a material which exhibits antiferromagnetism
- antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
- arch of triumph — Arc de Triomphe.
- ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
- army air forces — a unit comprising almost all aviation, with its personnel, equipment, etc.: it became part of the Air Force on July 26, 1947.
- arrangement fee — a fee charged by a bank, building society, etc for setting up a loan
- 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.
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