15-letter words containing f, a, r, t, e
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
- in fine feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
- inter-fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
- interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- 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.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
- irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
- irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
- irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
- joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
- kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
- law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
- leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- legacy software — legacy system
- linear function — linear transformation.
- low pass filter — (electronics, graphics) A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
- low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
- make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
- make the effort — try
- make tracks for — to go or head towards
- man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
- member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
- metainformation — metadata
- mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
- moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark