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15-letter words containing f, y

  • 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.
  • milkweed family — the plant family Asclepiadaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants, shrubs, and vines having simple, opposite or whorled leaves, usually milky juice, umbellike clusters of small flowers, and long pods that split open to release tufted, airborne seeds, and including the anglepod, butterfly weed, milkweed, stephanotis, and wax plant.
  • monospecificity — the condition of being specific for a sole antigen
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • nonspecifically — in a nonspecific way
  • 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.
  • official family — the executives or officials chiefly responsible for the operation of an organization or government.
  • 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
  • one of the boys — If a man is described as one of the boys, he is accepted by a group of male friends who do things that are thought of as typically masculine.
  • 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
  • phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
  • pied flycatcher — a small black and white migratory bird of Europe and western Asia, Ficedula hypoleuca
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • play kissy-face — to engage in kissing, caressing, etc., esp. overtly or publicly
  • 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.
  • popeye catalufa — See under catalufa.
  • 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.
  • qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
  • 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.
  • quantifiability — (uncountable) The condition of being quantifiable.
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
  • ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
  • ray-finned fish — any of various bony fishes of the subclass Actinopterygii, having strong slender rays, excluding the coelacanth and lungfish.
  • rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
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