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15-letter words containing t, i, f, o, r

  • preverification — the state of being verified.
  • price inflation — inflation fuelled by rising prices
  • printing office — a shop or factory in which printing is done.
  • professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
  • profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
  • proper fraction — a fraction having the numerator less, or lower in degree, than the denominator.
  • proper function — eigenfunction.
  • purified cotton — bleached and sterilized cotton from which the gross impurities, such as the seeds and waxy matter, have been removed: used for surgical dressings, tampons, etc
  • re-notification — a formal notifying or informing.
  • reafforestation — replanting with trees
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • recertification — the act of certifying.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
  • refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
  • reflexivization — to make (a verb or pronoun) reflexive.
  • refortification — the act or state of being refortified
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • register office — building where civil records are kept
  • registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
  • reign of terror — a period of the French Revolution, from about March, 1793, to July, 1794, during which many persons were ruthlessly executed by the ruling faction.
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • respecification — the act of specifying.
  • retroreflection — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • retroreflective — of or relating to a surface, material, or device (retroreflector) that reflects light or other radiation back to its source; reflective.
  • rhodesian front — the governing party in Zimbabwe (then called Rhodesia) 1962–78
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • right of search — the privilege of a nation at war to search neutral ships on the high seas for contraband or other matter, carried in violation of neutrality, that may subject the ship to seizure.
  • right-of-center — holding conservative views in politics; right-wing.
  • right-of-centre — You can describe a person or political party as right-of-centre if they have political views which are closer to capitalism and conservatism than to socialism but which are not very extreme.
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • rite of passage — Anthropology. a ceremony performed to facilitate or mark a person's change of status upon any of several highly important occasions, as at the onset of puberty or upon entry into marriage or into a clan.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • round whitefish — a whitefish, Prosopium cylindraceum, found in northern North America and Siberia, having silvery sides and a dark bronze back.
  • run of the mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mill — merely average; commonplace; mediocre: just a plain, run-of-the-mill house; a run-of-the-mill performance.
  • run-of-the-mine — of or relating to ore or coal that is crude, ungraded, etc.
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • self perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-absorption — preoccupation with oneself or one's own affairs.
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-correcting — automatically adjusting to or correcting mistakes, malfunctions, etc.: a self-correcting mechanism.
  • self-forgetting — self-forgetful.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-laceration — the result of lacerating; a rough, jagged tear.
  • self-monitoring — (especially formerly) a student appointed to assist in the conduct of a class or school, as to help take attendance or keep order.
  • self-perception — the act or faculty of perceiving, or apprehending by means of the senses or of the mind; cognition; understanding.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-protection — protection of oneself or itself.
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