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

  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nonconfidential — not confidential
  • of mice and men — a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • off one's hands — for which one is no longer responsible
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
  • order of canada — an order awarded to Canadians for outstanding achievement; established in 1967
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • premodification — an act or instance of modifying.
  • pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
  • profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
  • radio frequency — the frequency of the transmitting waves of a given radio message or broadcast.
  • read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
  • 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.
  • repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • stand in awe of — to respect and fear
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • three of a kind — a set of three cards of the same denomination.
  • to make friends — If you make friends with someone, you begin a friendship with them. You can also say that two people make friends.
  • transfer window — the period during the year in which a football club can transfer players from other teams into their own
  • tree of sadness — night jasmine (def 1).
  • unaccounted for — If people or things are unaccounted for, you do not know where they are or what has happened to them.
  • unaccounted-for — not accounted for; not understood; unexplained: an explosion resulting from some unaccounted-for mechanical failure.
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