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15-letter words containing f, l, a, t, o, r

  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
  • propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-revelation — disclosure of one's private feelings, thoughts, etc., especially when unintentional.
  • self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • shelikof strait — a strait between the Alaska Peninsula and Kodiak Island, in S Alaska. 130 miles (209 km) long and 30 miles (48 km) wide.
  • simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • soft-shell crab — a crab, especially the blue crab, that has recently molted and therefore has a soft, edible shell.
  • spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
  • spirits of salt — a solution of hydrochloric acid in water
  • starfish flower — carrion flower (def 2).
  • streamline flow — the flow of a fluid past an object such that the velocity at any fixed point in the fluid is constant or varies in a regular manner.
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • to grab hold of — Hold is used in expressions such as grab hold of, catch hold of, and get hold of, to indicate that you close your hand tightly around something, for example to stop something moving or falling.
  • traffic control — management of road use
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
  • ultrafiltration — Physical Chemistry. a filter for purifying sols, having a membrane with pores sufficiently small to prevent the passage of the suspended particles.
  • ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
  • unaffordability — that can be afforded; believed to be within one's financial means: attractive new cars at affordable prices.
  • uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
  • velcro fastener — a fastener made of Velcro
  • viral infection — disease caused by a virus
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
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