15-letter words containing f, e, d, r
- half-remembered — (of a memory, idea, etc) partially remembered or recalled
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
- high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- 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.
- infoword office — (tool) A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- 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.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- 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.
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- 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.
- linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
- loaded for bear — any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
- 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
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.
- mbogo, dr. fred — /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, especially an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between "bogus" and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare Bloggs Family, the, see also fred.
- 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
- michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
- nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
- 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
- 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 the order of — having an approximately specified size or quantity
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.