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15-letter words containing u, l, t, r, a, f

  • formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
  • fort lauderdale — a city in SE Florida: seashore resort.
  • four-ball match — a match, scored by holes, between two pairs of players, in which the four players tee off and the partners alternate in hitting the pair's ball having the better lie off the tee.
  • fourth official — In football, the fourth official is an official who assists the referee and assistant referees from the side of the pitch.
  • fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
  • fumitory family — the plant family Fumariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having deeply cut basal or alternate leaves, flowers with four petals of which one or two are spurred or lobed, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the bleeding heart, Dutchman's-breeches, fumitory, and squirrel corn.
  • funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • multiflora rose — a climbing or trailing rose, Rosa multiflora, of Japan and Korea, having hooked prickles and fragrant, dense clusters of flowers.
  • multiple factor — polygene.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • play favourites — to display favouritism
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • quarterfinalist — a participant in a quarterfinal contest.
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • requalification — a quality, accomplishment, etc., that fits a person for some function, office, or the like.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-caricature — a picture, description, etc., ludicrously exaggerating the peculiarities or defects of persons or things: His caricature of the mayor in this morning's paper is the best he's ever drawn.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • simple fracture — a fracture in which the bone does not pierce the skin.
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • special feature — an article differing from the normal format and focusing on a particular topic
  • sunflower state — Kansas (used as a nickname).
  • tentaculiferous — having tentacles
  • tetrafunctional — pertaining to molecules or groups that can bond at four sites.
  • the rule of law — the principle that no one is above the law and that everyone must follow the law
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • transform fault — a strike-slip fault that offsets a mid-ocean ridge in opposing directions on either side of an axis of seafloor spreading.
  • trifluoperazine — a compound, C 21 H 24 F 3 N 3 S, used as an antipsychotic.
  • true-false test — a test requiring one to mark statements as true or false.
  • 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.
  • ultrafastidious — extremely fastidious
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