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15-letter words containing s, p, e, a, r, f

  • altar of repose — a pedestal or niche upon which the sacraments are preserved from Maundy Thursday to Good Friday.
  • angle of repose — the maximum angle to the horizontal at which rocks, soil, etc, will remain without sliding
  • backup software — (tool, software)   Software for doing a backup, often included as part of the operating system. Backup software should provide ways to specify what files get backed up and to where. It may include its own scheduling function to automate the procedure or, preferably, work with generic scheduling facilities. It may include facilities for managing the backup media (e.g. maintaining an index of tapes) and for restoring files from backups. Examples are Unix's dump command and Windows's ntbackup.
  • bandpass filter — A bandpass filter is a filter designed to pass all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • bandstop filter — A bandstop filter is a filter designed to eliminate all frequencies within a band of frequencies.
  • baptism of fire — If someone who has just begun a new job has a baptism of fire, they immediately have to cope with very many severe difficulties and obstacles.
  • bird of passage — If you refer to someone as a bird of passage, you mean that they are staying in a place for a short time before going to another place.
  • cape finisterre — a headland in NW Spain: the westernmost point of the Spanish mainland
  • caprifoliaceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Caprifoliaceae, a family of N temperate shrubs, small trees, and climbers including honeysuckle, elder, and guelder-rose
  • dishwasherproof — (of dishes, cooking utensils, etc.) able to withstand washing in an automatic dishwasher without breaking, chipping, fading, etc.
  • draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
  • facile princeps — an obvious leader
  • fairy footsteps — heavy footsteps
  • false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
  • false pretences — fraud, deception
  • false pretenses — If you do something under false pretenses, you do it when people do not know the truth about you and your intentions.
  • fillister plane — an adjustable plane for cutting rabbets, grooves, etc
  • fissiparousness — The quality of being fissiparous.
  • fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
  • fool's paradise — a state of enjoyment based on false beliefs or hopes; a state of illusory happiness.
  • for pity's sake — You can say for pity's sake to add emphasis to what you are saying, especially when you are annoyed or upset.
  • for their pains — You say that something was all you got for your pains when you are mentioning the disappointing result of situation into which you put a lot of work or effort.
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • franz joseph ii — 1906–1989, prince of Liechtenstein 1938–89.
  • free atmosphere — the part of the atmosphere that lies above the frictional influence of the earth's surface.
  • free soil party — a former U.S. political party (1848–56) that opposed the extension of slavery in the Territories not yet admitted to statehood.
  • french-speaking — able to speak French
  • front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
  • grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • house of prayer — house of God.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • knife-sharpener — a kitchen implement that is used to sharpen knives
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • 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
  • nonprofessional — not a member of or trained in a specific profession.
  • nonprofessorial — not professorial
  • paradise flower — a prickly vine, Solanum wendlandii, of the nightshade family, native to Costa Rica, having branched clusters of showy lilac-blue flowers.
  • paraffin series — methane series
  • passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
  • passifloraceous — of, relating to, or belonging to the Passifloraceae, a tropical and subtropical family of climbing plants including the passionflowers: the flowers have five petals and threadlike parts forming a dense mass (corona) around the central disc
  • passport office — an office which issues passports
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
  • personification — the attribution of human nature or character to animals, inanimate objects, or abstract notions, especially as a rhetorical figure.
  • peter of amiens — c1050–1115, French monk: preacher of the first Crusade 1095–99.

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