15-letter words containing f, a, n, y
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- for a certainty — without doubt
- for a rainy day — If you say that you are saving something, especially money, for a rainy day, you mean that you are saving it until a time in the future when you might need it.
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- fountain valley — a city in SW California.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
- genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
- geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
- gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
- get any good of — to handle to good effect
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- 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.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- in a family way — pregnant; with child
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- infinitesimally — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- informationally — In an informational manner.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- insignificantly — Of such extremely small quantity or degree that it is not worth measuring.
- interfraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
- lay a finger on — to harm
- lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
- lay oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
- life expectancy — the probable number of years remaining in the life of an individual or class of persons determined statistically, affected by such factors as heredity, physical condition, nutrition, and occupation.
- magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
- nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
- noninflammatory — Not accompanied by or associated with inflammation.
- noninflationary — Not inflationary; not likely to cause economic inflation.
- nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
- olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.