15-letter words containing y, a
- faith community — a community of people sharing the same religious faith
- false pregnancy — physiological signs of pregnancy without conception; pseudocyesis.
- family business — company owned and run by a family
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family grouping — a system, used usually in the infant school, of grouping children of various ages together, esp for project work
- family planning — the concept or a program of limiting the size of families through the spacing or prevention of pregnancies, especially for economic reasons.
- family practice — medical specialization in general practice, requiring training beyond that of general practice and leading to board certification.
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
- federal holiday — a day which is a national holiday at the behest of the Federal Government
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- fetch and carry — to go and bring back; return with; get: to go up a hill to fetch a pail of water.
- fetishistically — in a fetishistic manner
- feynman diagram — a network of lines that represents a series of emissions and absorptions of elementary particles by other elementary particles, from which the probability of the series can be calculated.
- fideicommissary — the recipient of a fideicommissum.
- fiduciary issue — an issue of banknotes not backed by gold
- field artillery — artillery mobile enough to accompany troops in the field.
- fight city hall — to take up the apparently futile fight against petty or impersonal bureaucratic authority
- finance company — an institution engaged in such specialized forms of financing as purchasing accounts receivable, extending credit to retailers and manufacturers, discounting installment contracts, and granting loans with goods as security.
- first secretary — The First Secretary of the Welsh Assembly is the leader of the ruling party.
- first-day cover — a cover marked so as to indicate that it was mailed on the first day of issue of the stamp it bears and from one of the cities at which the stamp was issued on that day.
- fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
- flavourdynamics — as in quantum flavour dynamics, a mathematical model used to describe the interaction of flavoured particles (weak force) through the exchange of intermediate vector bosons
- flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
- floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- fly-on-the-wall — A fly-on-the-wall documentary is made by filming people as they do the things they normally do, rather than by interviewing them or asking them to talk directly to the camera.
- flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
- flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
- football player — sportsperson: plays football
- for a certainty — without doubt
- for a rainy day — If you say that you are saving something, especially money, for a rainy day, you mean that you are saving it until a time in the future when you might need it.
- 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.
- forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
- fountain valley — a city in SW California.
- fountains abbey — a ruined Cistercian abbey near Ripon in Yorkshire: founded 1132, dissolved 1539; landscaped 1720
- 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.
- from day to day — between one day and the next
- frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- 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.
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
- gaia hypothesis — a model of the earth as a self-regulating organism, advanced as an alternative to a mechanistic model.
- gamma ray burst — a short-lived, extremely luminous burst of gamma radiation from an unknown astronomical source, occurring at random positions in the sky several times a day. Abbreviation: GRB.
- gamma-ray burst — a short-lived, extremely luminous burst of gamma radiation from an unknown astronomical source, occurring at random positions in the sky several times a day. Abbreviation: GRB.
- gastronomically — the art or science of good eating.
- gated community — a group of houses or apartment buildings protected by gates, walls, or other security measures.
- gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.