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18-letter words containing r, f, e

  • to be said for sth — If you say there is a lot to be said for something, you mean you think it has a lot of good qualities or aspects.
  • to fall from grace — If someone falls from grace, they suddenly stop being successful or popular.
  • to feast your eyes — If you feast your eyes on something, you look at it for a long time with great attention because you find it very attractive.
  • to play favourites — to display favouritism
  • too clever by half — If someone is too clever by half, they are very clever and they show their cleverness in a way that annoys other people.
  • torsion-free group — a group in which every element other than the identity has infinite order.
  • traffic controller — a person whose job is to control the flow of air traffic
  • transfer passenger — a traveller who changes from one plane, train, or bus to another, or to another form of transport
  • transfinite number — an infinite cardinal or ordinal number.
  • transrectification — rectification occurring in one circuit as a result of the application of an alternating voltage to another circuit.
  • treasury of merits — the superabundant store of merits and satisfactions, comprising those of Christ, the Virgin Mary, and the saints.
  • treaty of rijswijk — a treaty signed at Rijswijk in the Netherlands in 1697, ending the War of the Grand Alliance
  • treaty of waitangi — a treaty signed in 1840 by Māori chiefs and a representative of the British Government, providing the basis for the British annexation of New Zealand
  • triangle of forces — a triangle whose sides represent the magnitudes and directions of three forces whose resultant is zero and which are therefore in equilibrium
  • tufted loosestrife — a primulaceous plant Naumburgia thyrsiflora
  • tune someone grief — to annoy or harass someone
  • turn in on oneself — to withdraw or cause to withdraw from contact with others and become preoccupied with one's own problems
  • two-tier financing — a form of lending in which the debt is divided into two separate parts, as in a first and second mortgage held by an individual on a single property
  • ultralow frequency — an electromagnetic wave with a frequency between 300 and 3000 hertz. Abbreviation: ULF, ulf.
  • ultraviolet filter — a filter used on a lens to absorb ultraviolet radiation that may impart an undesirable blue cast to a photograph.
  • under the aegis of — guided or protected by
  • unfair competition — acts done by a seller to confuse or deceive the public with intent to acquire a larger portion of the market, as by cutting prices below cost, misleading advertising, selling a spurious product under a false identity, etc.
  • universal suffrage — suffrage for all persons over a certain age, usually 18 or 21, who in other respects satisfy the requirements established by law.
  • university faculty — a division within a university comprising one subject area, or a number of related subject areas
  • ur of the chaldees — the city where Abraham was born, sometimes identified with the Sumerian city of Ur. Gen. 11:28, 31; 15:7; Neh. 9:7.
  • uriniferous tubule — a urine-bearing tubule in a nephron of a kidney.
  • vermiform appendix — a narrow, blind tube protruding from the cecum, having no known useful function, in humans being 3 to 4 inches (8 to 10 cm) long and situated in the lower right-hand part of the abdomen.
  • vermilion rockfish — a scarlet-red rockfish, Sebastes miniatus, inhabiting waters along the Pacific coast of North America, important as a food fish.
  • very low frequency — any frequency between 3 and 30 kilohertz. Abbreviation: VLF.
  • vicar of wakefield — a novel (1766) by Goldsmith.
  • video conferencing — the holding of videoconferences.
  • visiting professor — a professor from another institution invited to teach at a university or college for a limited period, usually for a semester or one academic year.
  • warrant of fitness — a six-monthly certificate required for motor vehicles certifying mechanical soundness
  • water of hydration — the portion of a hydrate that is represented as, or can be expelled as, water: now usually regarded as being in true molecular combination with the other atoms of the compound, and not existing in the compound as water.
  • wave of the future — a trend or development that may influence or become a significant part of the future: Computerization is the wave of the future.
  • weak nuclear force — weak interaction
  • weather forecaster — meteorologist
  • where you left off — If something continues from where it left off, it starts happening again at the point where it had previously stopped.
  • white-faced hornet — any large, stinging paper wasp of the family Vespidae, as Vespa crabro (giant hornet) introduced into the U.S. from Europe, or Vespula maculata (bald-faced hornet or white-faced hornet) of North America.
  • white-fronted tern — a coastal bird of New Zealand and SE Australia, Sterna striata, with a long black bill, a white breast, and a forked tail
  • whitewater rafting — the sport of rafting down fast-flowing rivers, esp over rapids
  • wild passionflower — the maypop, Passiflora incarnata.
  • wildlife programme — (esp on television) a documentary whose subject is wild animals in their natural habitat or undomesticated fauna and flora generally
  • wildlife sanctuary — an area where wild animals and plants are protected
  • woman of the world — a woman experienced and sophisticated in the ways and manners of the world, especially the world of society.
  • work one's ass off — work extremely hard
  • world of one's own — a state of mental detachment from other people
  • writ of assistance — a writ issued by a superior colonial court authorizing officers of the British crown to summon aid and enter and search any premises.
  • writ of attachment — a document by which a court orders the seizing of property in order to ensure satisfaction of a judgement
  • writ of certiorari — certiorari.
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