Phrase Hound found 12 phrases and 5 compound words that contain failures. The most common are listed below. Open failures in the live search for definitions, filters, and the full list.
Phrases 12
- dam failuresplural of dam failure: The situation where water breaks through a dam that is supposed to hold it back.
- government failuresplural of government failure: A situation in which a government intervention causes an economic inefficiency that would not exist in a true free market.
- market failuresplural of market failure: A situation in which the allocation of goods and services by a free market is not efficient.
- structural failuresplural of structural failure: Loss 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 …
- failures to launchplural of failure to launch: A young adult's inability to leave home and begin a self-supported life.
- failures to thriveplural of failure to thrive: Poor physical growth or level of weight, relative to one's age peers.
- ground failuresplural of ground failure: An 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.
- heart-failuresplural 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.
- power failuresplural of power failure: An unscheduled or accidental break in the supply of electricity.
- tree failuresplural of tree failure: A 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.
- congestive cardiac failuresplural of congestive cardiac 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.
- congestive heart failuresplural of congestive heart failure: A 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.
Compound words 5
- boyfailuresplural of boyfailure: A fictional boy or man who is endearingly pathetic or inept.
- girlfailuresplural of girlfailure: A fictional girl or woman who is endearingly pathetic or inept.
- microfailuresplural of microfailure: A very small-scale failure (of a physical structure)
- nonfailuresplural of nonfailure: Absence of failure.
- semifailuresplural of semifailure: A partial failure.