15-letter words containing f, e, d, i
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
- mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
- man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.
- 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.
- 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.
- newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
- nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
- node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
- noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
- nonconfidential — not confidential
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
- of mice and men — a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.
- office building — building containing offices
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- old father time — time personified
- on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
- orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
- outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
- over-confidence — too confident.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- 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
- oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
- 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.
- paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
- perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
- pine leaf aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
- quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
- 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-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.
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
- redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
- redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
- refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste