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15-letter words containing r, t, f

  • interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • interfraternity — a local or national organization of male students, primarily for social purposes, usually with secret initiation and rites and a name composed of two or three Greek letters.
  • interreflection — The illumination of an object by reflected light from other objects that are not light sources.
  • interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
  • interstratifies — Third-person singular simple present indicative form of interstratify.
  • intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • irrespective of — regardless of sth
  • irvine dataflow — (language)   (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
  • java 2 platform — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
  • job's comforter — a person who unwittingly or maliciously depresses or discourages someone while attempting to be consoling.
  • john of austria — ("Don John") 1547?–78, Spanish naval commander and general: victor at the battle of Lepanto.
  • joint favourite — one of two or more competitors in a race or contest that are considered equally likely to win
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • kingsford-smith — Sir Charles (Edward). 1897–1935, Australian aviator and pioneer (with Charles Ulm) of trans-Pacific and trans-Tasman flights
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • left outer join — outer join
  • left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • legion of merit — a decoration ranking below the Silver Star and above the Distinguished Flying Cross, awarded to U.S. and foreign military personnel for exceptionally meritorious conduct in the performance of outstanding services to the U.S.
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
  • make certain of — to ensure (that one will get something); confirm
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • make the effort — try
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • matron of honor — a married woman acting as the principal attendant of the bride at a wedding.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • meissner effect — the loss of magnetism that a superconductor displays when cooled to its transition temperature in a magnetic field.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • member of staff — an employee of a particular organization
  • metainformation — metadata
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