15-letter words containing f, l, u, r
- linear function — linear transformation.
- linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
- liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
- liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
- mistrustfulness — Quality of being mistrustful.
- molecular knife — a segment of genetic material that inhibits the reproduction of the AIDS virus by breaking up specific areas of the virus's genes.
- more fool (you) — If you say to someone 'More fool you' when they tell you what they have done or what they plan to do, you are indicating that you think that it is silly and shows a lack of judgment.
- mulberry family — the plant family Moraceae, characterized by deciduous or evergreen trees, shrubs, and herbaceous plants having simple, alternate leaves, often milky sap, dense clusters of small flowers, and fruit in the form of a fleshy berry, usually hollow in the center, and including the fig, mulberry, Osage orange, and rubber plant.
- 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.
- neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
- not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
- nuclear fission — fission (def 2).
- passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
- perfluorocarbon — a fluorocarbon consisting only of fluorine and carbon atoms
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- play favourites — to display favouritism
- please yourself — You say 'please yourself' to indicate in a rather rude way that you do not mind or care whether the person you are talking to does a particular thing or not.
- plumbers-friend — Machinery. a pistonlike reciprocating part moving within the cylinder of a pump or hydraulic device.
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- 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.
- 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.
- 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.
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- 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.
- 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
- relief supplies — food, water, medication, clothes, etc given to people in need, esp in disaster areas
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- resourcefulness — able to deal skillfully and promptly with new situations, difficulties, etc.
- retrofocus lens — a wide-angle lens, for use on single-lens reflex cameras, of inverted telephoto design, with a back focus greater than the focal length.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
- run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
- sale of produce — the selling of something that is produced, esp agricultural products
- samuel fb morse — Jedidiah [jed-i-dahy-uh] /ˌdʒɛd ɪˈdaɪ ə/ (Show IPA), 1761–1826, U.S. geographer and Congregational clergyman (father of Samuel F. B. Morse).
- self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.