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15-letter words containing f, a, n, d

  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • 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.
  • 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 canada — an order awarded to Canadians for outstanding achievement; established in 1967
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • saffron strands — the dried stigmas of the saffron, which are then crushed into powder to flavour or colour food
  • sargon of akkad — 24th to 23rd century bc, semilegendary Mesopotamian ruler whose empire extended from the Gulf to the Mediterranean
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-inductance — inductance inducing an electromotive force in the same circuit in which the motivating change of current occurs, equal to the number of flux linkages per unit of current.
  • self-infatuated — to inspire or possess with a foolish or unreasoning passion, as of love.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
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