15-letter words containing r, e, f, u, t
- theft insurance — insurance against loss or damage of property resulting from theft.
- thermodiffusion — thermal diffusion.
- three-four time — music: 3/4 time signature
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
- trout fisherman — a fisherman who catches trout
- true-false test — a test requiring one to mark statements as true or false.
- turn a deaf ear — pretend not to hear
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- ultramicrofiche — ultrafiche.
- 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.
- under the knife — an instrument for cutting, consisting essentially of a thin, sharp-edged, metal blade fitted with a handle.
- under your feet — If you say that someone is under your feet, you are annoyed because they are with you or near you, and are bothering you.
- unfair practice — unfair competition.
- unfamiliarities — not familiar; not acquainted with or conversant about: to be unfamiliar with a subject.
- uninformatively — in an uninformative manner
- university fees — charges made by a university for the administering of a course of study or an examination
- unverifiability — the quality or state of being unverifiable
- upright freezer — a freezer that is tall rather than wide
- vector function — a function that assigns a vector to each point in a given set.
- venus's-flytrap — a carnivorous plant, Dionaea muscipula, native to bogs of North and South Carolina, having roundish leaves with two lobes that close like a trap when certain delicate hairs on them are irritated, as by a fly: the range is now reduced, though the plants are still locally abundant.
- volunteer force — a group of unpaid workers
- well-formulated — to express in precise form; state definitely or systematically: He finds it extremely difficult to formulate his new theory.
- winter flounder — any of various popular food flatfishes, as Parophrys vetulus of the Pacific (English sole) and Pseudopleuronectes americanus of the Atlantic (winter flounder or blackback flounder)
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason