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15-letter words containing y, f

  • ready-furnished — (of a room, house, office, etc) fitted with furniture before being rented or sold
  • reality fiction — a satirical parody of a reality TV show
  • redial facility — a means of dialling a number again by pressing a button
  • refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
  • refinery revamp — A refinery revamp is a change in the technology or processes used in a refinery.
  • registry office — a government office and depository in which records and civil registers are kept and civil marriages performed.
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • rockrose family — the plant family Cistaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants and shrubs having simple, usually opposite leaves, solitary or clustered flowers, and capsular fruit, and including the frostweed, pinweed, and rockrose.
  • royal air force — aerial branch of British military
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • saltwater taffy — a taffy sometimes made with seawater but more generally made with salted fresh water.
  • say a few words — to give a brief speech
  • schottky defect — an unoccupied position in a crystal lattice caused by the relocation of an atom or ion from the interior to the surface of the crystal.
  • schottky effect — a reduction in the energy required to remove an electron from a solid surface in a vacuum when an electric field is applied to the surface
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • self-admittedly — admitting to a specific charge or accusation; self-confessed: a self-admitted spy.
  • self-analytical — the application of psychoanalytic techniques and theories to an analysis of one's own personality and behavior, especially without the aid of a psychiatrist or other trained person.
  • self-employment — the act or fact of being self-employed.
  • self-glorifying — to cause to be or treat as being more splendid, excellent, etc., than would normally be considered.
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  • self-rectifying — to make, put, or set right; remedy; correct: He sent them a check to rectify his account.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-revelatory — displaying, exhibiting, or disclosing one's most private feelings, thoughts, etc.: an embarrassingly self-revealing autobiography.
  • self-satisfying — effecting satisfaction to oneself.
  • shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
  • significatively — serving to signify.
  • sister of mercy — a member of a congregation of sisters founded in Dublin in 1827 by Catherine McAuley (1787–1841) and engaged chiefly in works of spiritual and corporal mercy.
  • skylight filter — a very slightly pink filter that absorbs ultraviolet light and reduces haze and excessive blueness
  • slumpflationary — of or relating to slumpflation
  • sons of liberty — any of several patriotic societies, originally secret, that opposed the Stamp Act and thereafter supported moves for American independence.
  • sticky-fingered — given to thieving
  • summary offence — an offence that is triable in a magistrates' court
  • superefficiency — the quality or condition of being superefficient
  • surface density — quantity, as of electric charge, per unit surface area.
  • syllabification — to form or divide into syllables.
  • sylvian fissure — lateral fissure.
  • syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
  • synod of whitby — the synod held in 664 at Whitby at which the Roman date for Easter was accepted and the Church in England became aligned with Rome
  • tetrahydrofuran — a clear liquid, C 4 H 8 O, soluble in water and organic solvents, used as a solvent for resins, in polymerizations and as a chemical intermediate.
  • the confederacy — the league of Southern states that seceded from the U.S. in 1860 & 1861; Ala., Ark., Fla., Ga., La., Miss., N.C., S.C., Tenn., Tex., & Va.
  • the holy family — the infant Jesus, Mary, and St Joseph
  • the way forward — how to progress, what to do next
  • the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
  • theory of games — game theory.
  • theory of types — a theory advanced by Bertrand Russell to avoid the liar paradox, Russell's paradox, etc, in which a class of expressions or of the entities they represent can all enter into the same syntactic relations
  • tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
  • to fly the coop — If you say that someone has flown the coop, you mean that they have left a place or situation that limits their freedom.
  • to fly the flag — If you fly the flag, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
  • to jump for joy — If you say that someone is jumping for joy, you mean that they are very pleased or happy about something.
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