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15-letter words containing f, i, r, e, t, a

  • friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
  • funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • 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
  • grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • in fine feather — one of the horny structures forming the principal covering of birds, consisting typically of a hard, tubular portion attached to the body and tapering into a thinner, stemlike portion bearing a series of slender, barbed processes that interlock to form a flat structure on each side.
  • 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
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • infrastructures — Plural form of infrastructure.
  • inter-fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interfraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
  • interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
  • interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • metainformation — metadata
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
  • multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • narcotrafficker — One who traffics in illegal narcotics.
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