15-letter words containing f, t, p, a, r
- propeller shaft — a shaft that transmits power from an engine to a propeller.
- proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
- self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
- simple fraction — a ratio of two integers.
- simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
- slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- spare no effort — do all you can
- special feature — an article differing from the normal format and focusing on a particular topic
- spirits of salt — a solution of hydrochloric acid in water
- trading profits — profits made from the buying and selling of goods and services
- traffic pattern — Aeronautics. a system of courses about an airfield that aircraft are assigned to fly when taking off, landing, or preparing to land.
- treaty of paris — a treaty of 1763 signed by Britain, France, and Spain that ended their involvement in the Seven Years' War
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- unfair practice — unfair competition.
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- windfall profit — a profit that arises thanks to an external event over which the person profiting had no control