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15-letter words containing u, n, f, o, r, t

  • fourth position — a position in which the feet are at right angles to the direction of the body, the toes pointing out, with one foot forward and the other foot back.
  • freak of nature — a person or animal that is born or grows with abnormal physical features.
  • french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
  • french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
  • friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • from sun to sun — from sunrise to sunset
  • fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
  • full outer join — outer join
  • funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • furniture mover — person: removal worker
  • furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
  • 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.
  • go for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
  • guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
  • gulf of corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • 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
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • 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
  • left outer join — outer join
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • man of the hour — a man who is honored by a group.
  • member function — A method in C++.
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • moment of truth — the moment in a bullfight at which the matador is about to make the kill.
  • mortiferousness — deadliness
  • neuroscientific — the field of study encompassing the various scientific disciplines dealing with the structure, development, function, chemistry, pharmacology, and pathology of the nervous system.
  • non-manufacture — the making of goods or wares by manual labor or by machinery, especially on a large scale: the manufacture of television sets.
  • not be yourself — If you say that you are not yourself, you mean you are not feeling well.
  • not care a fuck — not to care at all
  • nutty professor — a professor or academic person who is eccentric or slightly crazy or unusual
  • out of thin air — suddenly and unexpectedly
  • out of training — become unfit
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
  • part of fortune — the celestial longitude of the moon plus the celestial longitude of the ascendant minus the celestial longitude of the sun: said to connote an area of life through which one achieves emotional satisfaction.
  • patio furniture — furniture in an area adjoining a house, esp one that is paved and used for outdoor activities
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • perfunctoriness — performed merely as a routine duty; hasty and superficial: perfunctory courtesy.
  • point of honour — a circumstance, event, etc, that involves the defence of one's principles, social honour, etc
  • posttransfusion — occurring after or as a result of a transfusion
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
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