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15-letter words containing n, a, f, o

  • han unification — Han character
  • hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
  • have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
  • heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
  • hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
  • housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • 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.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • identifications — Plural form of identification.
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • in the hands of — under the control of
  • in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
  • indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
  • inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
  • information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
  • intensification — to make intense or more intense.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • ivano-frankovsk — a city in W Ukraine, S of Lvov.
  • ja well no fine — used to indicate reluctant acceptance
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • jeffersonianism — pertaining to or advocating the political principles and doctrines of Thomas Jefferson, especially those stressing minimum control by the central government, the inalienable rights of the individual, and the superiority of an agrarian economy and rural society.
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • joint financing — the provision of funds for a project, etc, from two or more sources
  • lake-of-lucerne — a canton in central Switzerland. 576 sq. mi. (1490 sq. km).
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latent function — any function of an institution or other social phenomenon that is unintentional and often unrecognized.
  • latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
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