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15-letter words containing n, a, f

  • (at) first hand — from the original source; directly
  • a false economy — If you describe an attempt to save money as a false economy, you mean that you have not saved any money as you will have to spend a lot more later.
  • a small fortune — a very high price or cost
  • absence of mind — distraction; forgetfulness
  • acanthus family — the plant family Acanthaceae, typified by tropical herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple opposite leaves, clusters of tubular bracted flowers, and seeds sometimes dispersed by exploding fruit, including the acanthus, caricature, and shrimp plant.
  • accounting file — (operating system)   A file which holds records of the resources used by individual jobs. These records are used to regulate, and calculate charges for, resources. An entry is opened in the accounting file as each job begins.
  • act of congress — a law that has been passed by both houses of the US Congress and signed by the president; if the president has chosen to veto the bill, it can be passed by a two-thirds majority in Congress
  • afars and issasFrench Territory of the, a former name of Djibouti (def 1).
  • affine geometry — the branch of geometry dealing with affine transformations.
  • affirmativeness — The property of being affirmative.
  • african buffalo — Cape buffalo.
  • africanized bee — a hybrid of African and European honeybees, developed in Brazil and known for its disease resistance and superior honey production
  • after a fashion — If you say that something was done after a fashion, you mean that it was done, but not very well.
  • afternoon watch — the watch from noon until 4 p.m.
  • aircraft hangar — a large workshop or building for storing and maintaining aircraft
  • alan f. shugart — (person)   The man who founded Shugart Associates and later co-founded Seagate Technology. Alan Shugart left Shugart Associates in 1974 [did he quit or was he fired?] and took a break from the disk-drive business. In 1979, he and Finis Conner founded a new company that at first was called Shugart Technology and later Seagate Technology.
  • all of a sudden — If something happens all of a sudden, it happens quickly and unexpectedly.
  • all-flying tail — a type of aircraft tailplane in which the whole of the tailplane is moved for control purposes
  • alta california — a former Spanish colony of New Spain, in the modern-day states of California, Nevada, and N Arizona: ceded by Mexico to the United States 1848.
  • amalgam filling — a dental filling made of amalgam
  • amaranth family — the plant family Amaranthaceae, typified by herbaceous, often weedy plants having alternate or opposite leaves and small, chaffy flowers without petals in brightly colored dense clusters, including the cockscomb, pigweed, and amaranth.
  • ancient of days — a name for God, originating in the Authorized Version of the Old Testament (Daniel 7:9)
  • andrew of crete — a.d. c650–730, Greek poet and Orthodox archbishop of Crete.
  • anfractuosities — Plural form of anfractuosity.
  • angel food cake — a light, spongy, white cake made with egg whites and no shortening
  • angle of attack — the acute angle between the chord line of an aerofoil and the undisturbed relative airflow
  • angle of repose — the maximum angle to the horizontal at which rocks, soil, etc, will remain without sliding
  • anne of austria — 1601–66, wife of Louis XIII of France and daughter of Philip III of Spain: regent of France (1643–61) for her son Louis XIV
  • anne of bohemia — 1366–94, queen consort of Richard II of England
  • anne of denmark — 1574–1619, wife (from 1589) of James I of England and VI of Scotland
  • anti-conformist — a person who conforms, especially unquestioningly, to the usual practices or standards of a group, society, etc.
  • anti-federalism — U.S. History. a member or supporter of the Antifederal party.
  • antifashionable — not conforming to mainstream fashion
  • antifederalists — Plural form of antifederalist.
  • antiferromagnet — a material which exhibits antiferromagnetism
  • antiforeclosure — opposed to the process of foreclosure
  • antishoplifting — designed to prevent shoplifting
  • ariboflavinosis — a condition resulting from a dietary deficiency of riboflavin
  • arrangement fee — a fee charged by a bank, building society, etc for setting up a loan
  • artificial gene — a duplicate gene synthesized in the laboratory by combining nucleotides in a sequence characteristic of the copied gene.
  • artificialness' — made by human skill; produced by humans (opposed to natural): artificial flowers.
  • arts and crafts — decorative handicraft and design, esp that of the Arts and Crafts movement, in late nineteenth-century Britain, which sought to revive medieval craftsmanship
  • as often as not — If you say that something happens as often as not, or more often than not, you mean that it happens fairly frequently, and that this can be considered as typical of the kind of situation you are talking about.
  • asian influenza — pandemic influenza caused by a strain of the influenza virus first isolated in Singapore in 1957
  • at first glance — If you say that something is true or seems to be true at first glance, you mean that it seems to be true when you first see it or think about it, but that your first impression may be wrong.
  • at the hands of — If someone experiences a particular kind of treatment, especially unpleasant treatment, at the hands of a person or organization, they receive it from them.
  • at the point of — very close to; on the verge of
  • atlantic puffin — any of several alcidine sea birds of the genera Fratercula and Lunda, having a short neck and a large, compressed, grooved bill, as F. arctica (Atlantic puffin) of the North Atlantic.
  • audio frequency — a frequency in the range 20 hertz to 20 000 hertz. A sound wave of this frequency would be audible to the human ear
  • auf wiedersehen — goodbye, until we see each other again

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