15-letter words containing f, a, c
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- 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 ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
- play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
- pontifical mass — (sometimes lowercase) Roman Catholic Church. a High Mass celebrated by a bishop or other prelate.
- popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- 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.
- prenotification — notice that is given or served prior to a specific date; advance notice.
- press of canvas — the most sail a vessel can carry under given conditions
- preverification — the state of being verified.
- price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
- prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
- 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).
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
- ratafia biscuit — a macaroon.
- re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- recertification — the act of certifying.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- reference frame — frame of reference (def 2).
- refortification — the act or state of being refortified
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- riemann surface — a geometric representation of a function of a complex variable in which a multiple-valued function is depicted as a single-valued function on several planes, the planes being connected at some of the points at which the function takes on more than one value.
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- royal air force — aerial branch of British military
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- sb's cup of tea — If you say that someone or something is not your cup of tea, you mean that they are not the kind of person or thing that you like.
- schiffs-reagent — a solution of rosaniline and sulfurous acid in water, used to test for the presence of aldehydes.
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- scientific name — Latin term for sth
- see the back of — to be rid of
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.