15-letter words containing d, a, f
- non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
- nonconfidential — not confidential
- not lift a hand — to do nothing; not even try
- of mice and men — a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- off one's hands — for which one is no longer responsible
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- old father time — time personified
- on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
- order of battle — the organization or hierarchy of military forces in preparation for a battle.
- order of canada — an order awarded to Canadians for outstanding achievement; established in 1967
- outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
- overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
- overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
- pacific islands — a U.S. trust territory in the Pacific Ocean, comprising the Mariana, Marshall, and Caroline Islands: approved by the United Nations 1947; since 1976 constituents of the trusteeship have established or moved toward self-government. 717 sq. mi. (1857 sq. km).
- pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
- pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- photoflood lamp — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- 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.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- 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
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
- 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
- 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
- saffron strands — the dried stigmas of the saffron, which are then crushed into powder to flavour or colour food