15-letter words containing d, u, r, e, f
- furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
- pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- 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
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
- 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
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
- self-disclosure — the act or an instance of disclosing; exposure; revelation.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
- silver fluoride — a yellow or brownish, crystalline, water-soluble, hygroscopic solid, AgF, used chiefly as an antiseptic and disinfectant.
- sodium fluoride — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.
- sulfur trioxide — an irritant, corrosive, low-melting solid, SO 3 , obtained by the oxidation of sulfur dioxide, used as an intermediate in the manufacture of sulfuric acid.
- summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
- sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
- superconfidence — great or extreme confidence, overconfidence
- surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
- surface-ripened — (of cheese) ripened on the surface by molds or other microorganisms.
- tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- turn a deaf ear — pretend not to hear
- unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
- unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
- under sb's roof — If something happens under your roof, it happens in your home.
- under the knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.