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

  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
  • 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.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • 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 of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
  • 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
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
  • tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
  • valerian family — the plant family Valerianaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple or compound, opposite leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, indehiscent fruit, and including corn salad, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi), and valerian.
  • venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
  • wolf-rayet star — a very hot (35,000–100,000 K) and luminous star in the early stages of evolution, with broad emission lines in its spectrum.
  • year after year — continously; without interruption
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