15-letter words containing fe
- origination fee — a fee charged by a lender for evaluating and processing a loan application, usually a percentage of the face value of the loan.
- pac-man defense — a defensive tactic against a hostile takeover in which the targeted company makes its own bid to take over the hostile firm.
- parking offence — the act of leaving your car somewhere illegally
- passenger ferry — a ferry that carries passengers
- peace offensive — an active program, policy, propaganda campaign, etc., by a national government for the purpose of terminating a war or period of hostility, lessening international tensions, or promoting peaceful cooperation with other nations.
- peacock feather — a (distinctive and brightly coloured) feather from the peacock
- pendulum effect — Also called pendulum law. Physics. a law, discovered by Galileo in 1602, that describes the regular, swinging motion of a pendulum by the action of gravity and acquired momentum.
- perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
- perfect cadence — a cadence in which the tonic chord has its root in both bass and soprano.
- perfectionistic — a person who adheres to or believes in perfectionism.
- perfector press — a flatbed press for printing both sides of a sheet in one operation.
- perimeter fence — fence surrounding an area
- picture-perfect — ideal in appearance,
- position effect — the alteration in the expression of a gene or genetic region due to its relocation within the genome as a result of inversion or translocation.
- potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
- preferentialism — the economic system of preference, esp amongst British commonwealth countries
- preferentialist — someone who believes in preferentialism
- preferred stock — stock that has a superior claim to that of common stock with respect to dividends and often to assets in the event of liquidation.
- preprofessional — of or relating to the time preceding one's concentrated study or practice of a profession: preprofessional training.
- present perfect — (in English) the tense form consisting of the present tense of have with a past participle and noting that the action of the verb was completed prior to the present, as I have finished.
- prevent defense — the defensive strategy of adding a defender to prevent completion of a long pass or other long gain.
- primary feather — any of the flight feathers growing from the manus of a bird's wing
- pro-confederate — united in a league, alliance, or conspiracy.
- professionalism — professional character, spirit, or methods.
- professionalist — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- professionalize — to give a professional character or status to; make into or establish as a profession.
- public defender — a lawyer appointed or elected by a city or county as a full-time, official defender to represent indigents in criminal cases at public expense.
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- puerperal fever — a systemic bacterial infection of the endometrium characterized by fever, rapid heartbeat, uterine tenderness, and malodorous discharge, chiefly occurring in women after childbirth, usually as the result of unsterile obstetric procedures.
- put into effect — law, rule: enforce
- quality of life — comfort and enjoyment in one's existence
- quality-of-life — affecting the quality of urban life: such quality-of-life crimes as fare-beating and graffiti writing.
- recurrent fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- refectory table — a long, narrow table having a single stretcher between trestlelike supports at the ends.
- refer to drawer — a request by a bank that the payee consult the drawer concerning a cheque payable by that bank (usually because the drawer has insufficient funds in his account), payment being suspended in the meantime
- reference frame — frame of reference (def 2).
- reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
- reference point — a point used to find or describe the location of something
- reference strip — a strip of film used to help calculate and monitor the exposing and processing of photographs
- relapsing fever — one of a group of fevers characterized by relapses, occurring in many tropical countries, and caused by several species of spirochetes transmitted by several species of lice and ticks.
- repeat offender — A repeat offender is someone who commits the same sort of crime more than once.
- research fellow — A research fellow is a member of an academic institution whose job is to do research.
- rheumatic fever — a serious disease, associated with streptococcal infections, usually affecting children, characterized by fever, swelling and pain in the joints, sore throat, and cardiac involvement.
- ruffle feathers — to cause upset or offence
- rule one's life — If you say that something rules someone's life, you mean that it affects everything they do, usually in a negative way.
- saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
- say a few words — to give a brief speech
- sb of few words — A person of few words says very little, especially about their opinions or feelings.
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- 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.