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15-letter words containing f, a, r, s

  • fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
  • fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
  • fiesta de toros — a bullfight; corrida.
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • finno-russo war — the war (1939–40) between Finland and the Soviet Union.
  • fire resistance — the amount of resistance of a material or construction to fire.
  • first amendment — an amendment to the U.S. Constitution, ratified in 1791 as part of the Bill of Rights, prohibiting Congress from interfering with freedom of religion, speech, assembly, or petition.
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
  • first world war — World War I.
  • first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
  • fischer-dieskau — Dietrich [dee-trik;; German dee-trikh] /ˈdi trɪk;; German ˈdi trɪx/ (Show IPA), 1925–2012, German baritone.
  • fish and brewis — a Newfoundland dish of cooked salt cod and soaked hard bread
  • fish restaurant — a restaurant which serves mainly fish
  • fishing harbour — a place where fishing boats are tied up
  • fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • fitness tracker — a wearable electronic device or a software application that monitors one's physical fitness and daily physical activity.
  • fitness trainer — someone whose job is to improve other people's fitness
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
  • flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • flimflam artist — trickster; swindler
  • flinders island — an island off the coast of NE Tasmania: the largest of the Furneaux Islands. Pop: 850 (2004 est). Area: 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floods of tears — If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
  • foolscap quarto — a book size, 63⁄4 by 81⁄2 inches (foolscap quarto)
  • for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
  • for some reason — for an unknown reason
  • for the sake of — for the good of
  • for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • foreign affairs — politics: international relations
  • forest of arden — a region of N Warwickshire, part of a former forest: scene of Shakespeare's As You Like It
  • formal calculus — an uninterpreted symbolic system whose syntax is precisely defined, and on which a relation of deducibility is defined in purely syntactic terms; a logistic system
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
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