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15-letter words containing f, a, i, r, o

  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • lay a finger on — to harm
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
  • man-of-war fish — a small, tropical fish, Nomeus gronovii, that lives among the tentacles of the Portuguese man-of-war.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • margin of error — statistics: variance
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • metainformation — metadata
  • mezzanine floor — intermediate level in a building
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