15-letter words containing o, i, r, e, a
- executive board — administrative committee
- experimentation — The act of experimenting; practice by experiment.
- expiration date — when food product is no longer fresh
- export earnings — the earnings of a company or country that are generated through the export of goods or services
- expression mark — one of a set of musical directions, usually in Italian, indicating how a piece or passage is to be performed
- extemporisation — Alternative spelling of extemporization.
- extemporization — The act of extemporizing; the act of doing anything extempore.
- exteriorisation — Mental awareness of the form of something that cannot be directly visualised.
- exteriorization — The physical embodiment of an abstraction.
- externalisation — Alternative spelling of externalization.
- externalization — A physical thing that typifies an abstract thing; an embodiment or personalization.
- extradictionary — (obsolete) Consisting not of words but of realities.
- extraordinaries — things that exceed the usual order, kind, or method
- extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
- fabric softener — a substance added to fabrics during laundering to make them puffier and softer.
- factory chimney — a tall chimney of a factory
- fair employment — the policy or practice of employing people on the basis of their capabilities only, without regard to race, color, religion, sex, national origin, age, or disability.
- fair-haired boy — having light-colored hair.
- fairy footsteps — heavy footsteps
- fairy godfather — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godfather.
- fairy godmother — a kindly sponsor or guardian; godmother.
- faithworthiness — the quality of being faithworthy
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
- feast or famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- feast-or-famine — characterized by alternating, extremely high and low degrees of prosperity, success, volume of business, etc.: artists who lead a feast-or-famine life.
- federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
- fiesta de toros — a bullfight; corrida.
- fighter command — a former unit of the Royal Air Force dedicated to the use of fighter aircraft, esp against enemy bombers and their escorts during WWII
- fire water pond — A fire water pond is an area of water which is kept so it can be used if there is a fire.
- fire-and-forget — used to describe a type of missile that, once fired, is able to guide itself to its target
- first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
- fission reactor — a nuclear reactor in which a fission reaction takes place
- fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.