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15-letter words containing f, e, r

  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • 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.
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
  • 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
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • purslane family — the plant family Portulacaceae, characterized by chiefly herbaceous plants having simple, often fleshy leaves, sometimes showy flowers, and capsular fruit, and including bitterroot, purslane, red maids, rose moss, and spring beauty.
  • quadric surface — a three-dimensional surface whose equation is a quadratic equation.
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • 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
  • rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • 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.
  • re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
  • 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
  • reafforestation — replanting with trees
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • recertification — the act of certifying.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • redfin pickerel — See under pickerel (def 1).
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • refamiliarizing — to make (onself or another) well-acquainted or conversant with something.
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
  • reference frame — frame of reference (def 2).
  • reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
  • reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
  • reference strip — a strip of film used to help calculate and monitor the exposing and processing of photographs
  • 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.
  • refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • refortification — the act or state of being refortified
  • refreshment bar — a bar or stall that offers a variety of drinks for sale
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
  • register office — building where civil records are kept
  • registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
  • reign of terror — a period of the French Revolution, from about March, 1793, to July, 1794, during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction.
  • relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
  • relief supplies — food, water, medication, clothes, etc given to people in need, esp in disaster areas
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