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15-letter words containing f, i, t, y, o

  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • 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.
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • non-feasibility — capable of being done, effected, or accomplished: a feasible plan.
  • non-flexibility — capable of being bent, usually without breaking; easily bent: a flexible ruler.
  • non-specificity — the quality or state of being specific.
  • nonflammability — The state or condition of being nonflammable.
  • noninflammatory — Not accompanied by or associated with inflammation.
  • noninflationary — Not inflationary; not likely to cause economic inflation.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence
  • quality-of-life — affecting the quality of urban life: such quality-of-life crimes as fare-beating and graffiti writing.
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
  • to play footsie — If someone plays footsie with you, they touch your feet with their own feet, for example under a table, often as a playful way of expressing their romantic or sexual feelings towards you.
  • treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
  • un-fortuitously — happening or produced by chance; accidental: a fortuitous encounter.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • yeast infection — candida: genital inflammation
  • yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.
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