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

  • preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
  • preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
  • preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
  • 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).
  • professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • 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.
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • 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.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • reversing falls — a series of rapids in the Saint John River, New Brunswick, Canada, the flow of which regularly reverses itself owing to the force an incoming tide
  • rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
  • 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.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • 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
  • saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-caricature — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • self-flattering — praise and exaggeration of one's own achievements coupled with a denial or glossing over of one's faults or failings; self-congratulation.
  • self-generating — producing from within itself.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-lacerating — to tear roughly; mangle: The barbed wire lacerated his hands.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-persuasion — the act of persuading or seeking to persuade.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
  • shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
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