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15-letter words containing f, r, y

  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • house of prayer — house of God.
  • hydraulic fluid — a fluid, usually of low viscosity, as oil, used in a hydraulic system.
  • 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
  • hyperfemininity — the quality of being feminine; womanliness.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • hyperweak force — a hypothetical force that transforms quarks into leptons and vice versa at high energies.
  • imperfect-rhyme — rhyme in which either the vowels or the consonants of stressed syllables are identical, as in eyes, light; years, yours.
  • inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • 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.
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • lay a finger on — to harm
  • 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.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • michael faraday — Michael, 1791–1867, English physicist and chemist: discoverer of electromagnetic induction.
  • 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.
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • mother-of-thyme — a branched, woody, prostrate plant, Thymus serpyllum, of the mint family, native to Eurasia and northern Africa, having wiry stems that root at the joints and small, purplish flowers.
  • 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.
  • myofibroblastic — Relating to myofibroblasts.
  • neurofibrillary — Of or pertaining to a neurofibril.
  • noninflammatory — Not accompanied by or associated with inflammation.
  • noninflationary — Not inflationary; not likely to cause economic inflation.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • off the trolley — Describes the behaviour of a program that malfunctions and goes catatonic, but doesn't actually crash or abort. See glitch, bug, deep space.
  • olfactory nerve — either one of the first pair of cranial nerves, consisting of sensory fibers that conduct to the brain the impulses from the mucous membranes of the nose.
  • olfactory tract — a long narrow triangular band of white tissue originating in the olfactory bulb and extending back to the point at which its fibres enter the base of the cerebrum
  • orderly officer — Military. officer of the day, as in the British army or, formerly, in the U.S. Army.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overfamiliarity — The state of being overfamiliar.
  • oyster toadfish — See under toadfish (def 1).
  • passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • 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.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
  • primrose family — the plant family Primulaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having simple, opposite, whorled, or basal leaves, flowers with a five-lobed corolla, and capsular fruit, and including cyclamen, loosestrife of the genus Lysimachia, pimpernel, primrose, and shooting star.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • 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.
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
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