Phrase Hound found 28 phrases and 9 compound words that contain failure. The most common are listed below. Open failure in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 28
- heart failureThe chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
- power failureAn unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.
- failure to launchA young adult's inability to leave home and begin a self-supported life.
- market failureA situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.
- failure rateThe frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour.
- failure to thrivePoor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
- Renal Failure
- congestive heart failureA syndrome marked by weakness, edema and shortness of breath, due to the inability of the heart to circulate the blood adequately to the lungs and other tissues.
- single point of failureA component in a device, or a point in a network, that, if it were to fail, would cause the entire device or network to fail (normally eliminated by adding redundancy).
- Kidney Failure
- Failure Analysis
- government failureA situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market.
- dam failureThe situation where water breaks through a dam that is supposed to hold it back.
- structural failureLoss of the load-carrying capacity of a component or member within a structure or of the structure itself. Structural failure is initiated when the material in a structure is stressed to its strength limit, thus causing fracture or …
- failure ratesplural of failure rate: The frequency with which an engineered system or component fails, expressed for example in failures per hour.
- ground failureAn effect of seismic activity, such as an earthquake, where the ground becomes very soft, due to the shaking, and acts like a liquid, causing landslides, spreading, and settling.
- mean time to failureThe predicted mean average time taken for a part or system to fail for the first time.
- failure drillSynonym of Mozambique drill: A shooting technique in which the shooter fires two rounds into the torso of a target with an additional shot to the head to ensure a greater likelihood of the target's death.
- tree failureA naturally occurring event in which a tree suffers considerable damage, such as uprooting, the falling of a limb, or the splitting of a trunk, often posing a safety hazard to people and property in the vicinity.
- mean distance between failureA measure of reliability that expresses the average distance travelled by a type of lorry, bus, rolling stock, etc, before preventative or reparative maintenance is required.
- single points of failureplural of single point of failure: A component in a device, or a point in a network, that, if it were to fail, would cause the entire device or network to fail (normally eliminated by adding redundancy).
- acute kidney failureSynonym of acute kidney injury: A potentially fatal condition in which the kidneys suddenly lose their ability to filter waste from the blood.
- acute renal failureSynonym of acute kidney injury: A potentially fatal condition in which the kidneys suddenly lose their ability to filter waste from the blood.
- congestive cardiac failureSynonym of heart failure: The chronic inability of the heart to pump a sufficient amount of blood throughout the body, leading to a pooling of blood and shortness of breath.
- failure drillsplural of failure drill: A shooting technique in which the shooter fires two rounds into the torso of a target with an additional shot to the head to ensure a greater likelihood of the target's death.
Compound words 9
- postfailureFollowing a failure
- failurelessWithout failure.
- failureproofSynonym of failproof: Resistant to failure; that cannot go wrong.
- girlfailureA fictional girl or woman who is endearingly pathetic or inept.
- microfailureA very small-scale failure (of a physical structure)
- nonfailureAbsence of failure.
- semifailureA partial failure.
- antifailureCountering organ failure, especially of the heart.
- boyfailureA fictional boy or man who is endearingly pathetic or inept.