15-letter words containing f, e, r, o, u, s
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- food insecurity — an economic and social condition of limited or uncertain access to adequate food.
- force the issue — to compel decision on some matter
- formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
- foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
- four-poster bed — bed: post at each corner
- fourteen points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- fourteen-points — a statement of the war aims of the Allies, made by President Wilson on January 8, 1918.
- frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
- fusospirochetes — Plural form of fusospirochete.
- 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.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- half-understood — partially understood
- hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
- house of prayer — house of God.
- 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
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
- let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- mortiferousness — deadliness
- multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
- neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
- odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- pott's fracture — a fracture of the lower fibula and of the malleolus of the tibia, resulting in outward displacement of the foot.
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.