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15-letter words containing for

  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • loaded for bear — any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • make a play for — to act the part of (a person or character) in a dramatic performance; portray: to play Lady Macbeth.
  • make it hot for — having or giving off heat; having a high temperature: a hot fire; hot coffee.
  • make the effort — try
  • make tracks for — to go or head towards
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • metainformation — metadata
  • mis-informative — to give false or misleading information to.
  • national forest — forested land owned, maintained, and preserved by the U.S. government.
  • nitrochloroform — chloropicrin.
  • non-conformance — lack of conformity.
  • non-enforceable — to put or keep in force; compel obedience to: to enforce a rule; Traffic laws will be strictly enforced.
  • non-enforcement — the act or process of enforcing.
  • non-informative — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
  • nonconformities — Plural form of nonconformity.
  • not before time — If you say not before time after a statement has been made about something that has been done, you are saying in an emphatic way that you think it should have been done sooner.
  • not for nothing — If you say that it was not for nothing that something happened, you are emphasizing that there was a very good reason for it to happen.
  • one for his nob — the call made with this jack, scoring one point
  • outside forward — one of two attacking players who usually play on the far side of the field; wing.
  • over-performing — to carry out; execute; do: to perform miracles.
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • oxford movement — the movement toward High Church principles within the Church of England, originating at Oxford University in 1833 in opposition to liberalizing, rationalizing, and evangelical tendencies and emphasizing the principles of primitive and patristic Christianity as well as the historic and catholic character of the church.
  • 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.
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • performance art — a collaborative art form originating in the 1970s as a fusion of several artistic media, as painting, film, video, music, drama, and dance, and deriving in part from the 1960s performance happenings.
  • performance car — a car that can go very fast and can increase its speed very quickly
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • platform rocker — a rocking chair supported on a stationary base
  • platform scales — a weighing machine which has a platform that you put something on to be weighed
  • platform tennis — a variation of tennis played on a wooden platform enclosed with chicken wire in which the players hit a rubber ball with wooden paddles following the same basic rules as tennis except that only one serve is permitted and balls can be played off the back and side fences.
  • platform ticket — a pass allowing a visitor to enter upon a railroad platform from which those not traveling are ordinarily excluded.
  • pre-reformation — the act of reforming; state of being reformed.
  • preformationism — the belief in the theory of preformation
  • preformationist — someone who advocates the theory of preformation
  • reafforestation — replanting with trees
  • refined fortran — (RF) Similar to Refined C. Research implementations only. "Refined Fortran: Another Sequential Language for Parallel Programming," H.G. Dietz et al, Proc 1986 Intl Conf Parallel Proc, pp.184-191.
  • refortification — the act or state of being refortified
  • ride for a fall — to sit on and manage a horse or other animal in motion; be carried on the back of an animal.
  • roaring forties — the stormy oceanic areas between 40° and 50° south latitude
  • royal air force — aerial branch of British military
  • rutherford atom — the atom postulated as analogous to the solar system, with electrons revolving around a small, central, positive nucleus that constitutes practically the entire mass of the atom
  • scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
  • security forces — police or soldiers responsible for maintaining security
  • self-forgetting — self-forgetful.
  • service uniform — a uniform for routine duties and service, as distinguished from work, dress, or full-dress uniforms.
  • sherwood forest — an ancient royal forest in central England, chiefly in Nottinghamshire: the traditional haunt of Robin Hood.
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