15-letter words containing o, a, f
- prince of peace — Jesus Christ, regarded by Christians as the Messiah. Isa. 9:6.
- prince of wales — Prince of Wales and Duke of Cornwall ("The Black Prince") 1330–76, English military leader (son of Edward III).
- principal focus — focal point (def 1).
- prisoner of war — a person who is captured and held by an enemy during war, especially a member of the armed forces. Abbreviation: POW.
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- 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.
- public footpath — a footpath along which the public has right of way
- pull a fast one — moving or able to move, operate, function, or take effect quickly; quick; swift; rapid: a fast horse; a fast pain reliever; a fast thinker.
- 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.
- quantifications — Plural form of quantification.
- queen of heaven — a designation of the Virgin Mary.
- question of law — a question concerning a rule or the legal effect or consequence of an event or circumstance, usually determined by a court or judge.
- radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
- rape of lucrece — a narrative poem (1594) by Shakespeare.
- ray of sunshine — beam of sunlight
- rayside-balfour — a town in S Ontario, in S Canada.
- re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- reafforestation — replanting with trees
- reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
- recertification — the act of certifying.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
- refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
- reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
- refortification — the act or state of being refortified
- refuse disposal — the act of disposing of rubbish and waste
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- respecification — the act of specifying.
- rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
- ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- 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.
- roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
- rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
- royal air force — aerial branch of British military
- rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
- saffron strands — the dried stigmas of the saffron, which are then crushed into powder to flavour or colour food