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15-letter words containing f, e, o

  • a false economy — If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
  • a full-time job — If you describe a regular activity or task as a full-time job, you mean that it takes up so much of your time it is like doing a paid job.
  • a heart of gold — If you say that someone has a heart of gold, you are emphasizing that they are very good and kind to other people.
  • a piece of cake — If you think something is very easy to do, you can say it is a piece of cake. People often say this to stop someone feeling worried about doing something they have to do.
  • a small fortune — a very high price or cost
  • absence of mind — distraction; forgetfulness
  • accessory fruit — a fruit having enlarged accessory structures in addition to those formed from the ovary, as the strawberry, in which the fleshy tissue is the enlarged receptacle and the true fruits are the small, dry achenes borne on its surface
  • accounting file — (operating system)   A file which holds records of the resources used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins.
  • act of congress — a law that has been passed by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the president; if the president has chosen to veto the bill, it can be passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress
  • adhesive factor — the ratio of the force that can be exerted on driving wheels with full traction to the weight on the driving wheels, usually expressed as a percentage.
  • affaire d'amour — a love affair
  • affine geometry — the branch of geometry dealing with affine transformations.
  • after a fashion — If you say that something was done after a fashion, you mean that it was done, but not very well.
  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
  • agree to differ — to end an argument amicably while maintaining differences of opinion
  • air force cross — a U.S. Air Force decoration awarded for extraordinary heroism in action
  • algebra of sets — a nonempty collection of sets having the property that the union of two sets of the collection is a set of the collection and the complement of each set of the collection is a set in the collection.
  • all of a sudden — If something happens all of a sudden, it happens quickly and unexpectedly.
  • altar of repose — a pedestal or niche upon which the sacraments are preserved from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday.
  • ancient of days — a name for God, originating in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament (Daniel 7:9)
  • andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
  • anfractuosities — Plural form of anfractuosity.
  • angel food cake — a light, spongy, white cake made with egg whites and no shortening
  • angle of attack — the acute angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the undisturbed relative airflow
  • angle of repose — the maximum angle to the horizontal at which rocks, soil, etc, will remain without sliding
  • anne of austria — 1601–66, wife of Louis XIII of France and daughter of Philip III of Spain: regent of France (1643–61) for her son Louis XIV
  • anne of bohemia — 1366–94, queen consort of Richard II of England
  • anne of denmark — 1574–1619, wife (from 1589) of James I of England and VI of Scotland
  • antifashionable — not conforming to mainstream fashion
  • antiferromagnet — a material which exhibits antiferromagnetism
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • applesoft basic — (language)   A version of BASIC for Apple computers.
  • army air forces — a unit comprising almost all aviation, with its personnel, equipment, etc.: it became part of the Air Force on July 26, 1947.
  • articles of war — the disciplinary and legal procedures by which the naval and military forces of Great Britain were bound before the 19th century
  • as often as not — If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
  • at the hands of — If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them.
  • at the mercy of — in the power of
  • at the point of — very close to; on the verge of
  • at the touch of — You use at the touch of in expressions such as at the touch of a button and at the touch of a key to indicate that something is possible by simply touching a switch or one of the keys of a keyboard.
  • audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
  • autofluorescent — Of, pertaining to, or exhibiting autofluorescence.
  • automatic rifle — a type of light machine gun capable of firing automatically or in single shots.
  • autotransformer — a transformer in which part of the winding is common to both primary and secondary circuits
  • axiom of choice — the axiom of set theory that given any collection of disjoint sets, a set can be so constructed that it contains one element from each of the given sets.
  • azobisformamide — (chemistry) azodicarbonamide.
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bank of england — the central bank of the United Kingdom, which acts as banker to the government and the commercial banks. It is responsible for managing the government's debt and implementing its policy on other monetary matters: established in 1694, nationalized in 1946; in 1997 the government restored the authority to set interest rates to the Bank
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.

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