15-letter words containing f, e, r
- track and field — athletics events
- track-and-field — of, relating to, or participating in the sports of running, pole-vaulting, broad-jumping, etc.: a track-and-field athlete.
- tractive effort — the force exerted by a locomotive or other powered vehicle on its driving wheels.
- trade reference — a reference in which one trader gives his opinion as to the creditworthiness of another trader in the same trade, esp to a supplier
- traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
- traffic offence — a violation of traffic regulations, such as breaking the speed limit
- traffic pattern — Aeronautics. a system of courses about an airfield that aircraft are assigned to fly when taking off, landing, or preparing to land.
- transfer factor — a lymphocyte product that, when extracted from T cells of an individual with immunity to a particular antigen, can confer that immunity when administered to another individual of the same species.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transfer season — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
- transferability — to convey or remove from one place, person, etc., to another: He transferred the package from one hand to the other.
- tray classifier — A tray classifier is a tank for leaching from a dispersed solid, in which pulp at the bottom of the tank is raked (= moved to the exit) while solvent is forced toward the bottom of the tank.
- treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
- tree of sadness — night jasmine (def 1).
- tree-form frame — a rigid frame having a pair of inclined girders branching from each column, as to form principals of a roof.
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- trondheim fiord — an inlet of the North Sea, extending into N Norway. 80 miles (129 km) long.
- trondheim fjord — an inlet of the Norwegian Sea in Norway, and Norway's third longest fjord, near which is the port of Trondheim
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- true-false test — a test requiring one to mark statements as true or false.
- turn a deaf ear — pretend not to hear
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
- unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
- under sb's roof — If something happens under your roof, it happens in your home.
- under the knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
- under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
- under-frequency — Also, frequence. the state or fact of being frequent; frequent occurrence: We are alarmed by the frequency of fires in the neighborhood.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
- undress uniform — a uniform worn on other than formal occasions.
- unfair practice — unfair competition.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- unfossiliferous — (of sediment, clay, rock, etc) not containing fossils
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- upright freezer — a freezer that is tall rather than wide
- valerian family — the plant family Valerianaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple or compound, opposite leaves, clusters of small flowers, and dry, indehiscent fruit, and including corn salad, spikenard (Nardostachys jatamansi), and valerian.
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- vestimentiferan — any of various marine tubeworms of the phylum Vestimentifera or Pogonophora, which live in upright tubes near hydrothermal vents.
- video frequency — transmission frequency of the television picture.
- videoconference — a teleconference conducted via television equipment.
- viewing figures — the number of people watching a television programme
- viral infection — disease caused by a virus
- visser 't hooft — Willem Adolf [vil-uh m ah-dawlf] /ˈvɪl əm ˈɑ dɔlf/ (Show IPA), 1900–85, Dutch Protestant clergyman and writer: leader in ecumenical movement.