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15-letter words containing f, d, m

  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • medium-fine pen — a pen with a fairly small point
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • micromicrofarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • of mice and men — a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.
  • old father time — time personified
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
  • pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
  • photoflood lamp — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
  • plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
  • premanufactured — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • retirement fund — A retirement fund is a special fund which people pay money into so that, when they retire from their job, they will receive money regularly as a pension.
  • rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • self-adjustment — adjustment of oneself or itself, as to the environment.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
  • self-debasement — to reduce in quality or value; adulterate: They debased the value of the dollar.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-proclaimed — to announce or declare in an official or formal manner: to proclaim war.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • sodium fluoride — a colorless, crystalline, water-soluble, poisonous solid, NaF, used chiefly in the fluoridation of water, as an insecticide, and as a rodenticide.
  • software method — Software Methodology
  • sons of freedom — a Doukhobor sect, located largely in British Columbia: notorious for its acts of terrorism in opposition to the government in the 1950s and 1960s
  • stamford bridge — a village in N England, east of York: site of a battle (1066) in which King Harold of England defeated his brother Tostig and King Harald Hardrada of Norway, three weeks before the Battle of Hastings
  • summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
  • the first-named — something that is specified or named first
  • the second form — the second year of secondary school
  • thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
  • time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
  • time difference — the difference in clock time between two or more different time zones
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
  • trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
  • tufted titmouse — a gray titmouse, Parus bicolor, of the eastern and midwestern U.S., having a crested head.
  • undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
  • usman dan fodio — 1754–1817, African mystic and revolutionary leader, who created a Muslim state in Nigeria
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • waterfall model — (programming)   A software life-cycle or product life-cycle model, described by W. W. Royce in 1970, in which development is supposed to proceed linearly through the phases of requirements analysis, design, implementation, testing (validation), integration and maintenance. The Waterfall Model is considered old-fashioned or simplistic by proponents of object-oriented design which often uses the spiral model instead. Earlier phases are sometimes called "upstream" and later ones "downstream". Compare: iterative model.
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