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

  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • power amplifier — an amplifier for increasing the power of a signal.
  • 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.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • 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
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • 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.
  • ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • 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
  • sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
  • samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
  • 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-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • 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-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-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
  • self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • 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.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spirits of salt — a solution of hydrochloric acid in water
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
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