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15-letter words containing f, e, r, l, s, a

  • fallout shelter — protective bunker
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
  • false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
  • false miterwort — foamflower.
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • false pretences — fraud, deception
  • false pretenses — If you do something under false pretenses, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • federal reserve — In the United States, the Federal Reserve is the central banking system, which is responsible for setting policy on monetary matters such as money supply and interest rates.
  • female suffrage — woman suffrage.
  • ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
  • ferrous sulfate — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
  • fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flemish brabant — a province of central Belgium, formed in 1995 from the N part of Brabant province: densely populated and intensively farmed, with large industrial centres. Pop: 1 031 904 (2004 est). Area: 2106 sq km (813 sq miles)
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • flinders island — an island off the coast of NE Tasmania: the largest of the Furneaux Islands. Pop: 850 (2004 est). Area: 2077 sq km (802 sq miles)
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • floods of tears — If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
  • floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
  • fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • fovea centralis — a small pit or depression at the back of the retina forming the point of sharpest vision.
  • franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
  • free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
  • friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
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