15-letter words containing a, n, d, f
- fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
- funny handshake — an elaborate handshake, indicating that someone belongs to a certain social group, etc
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- get any good of — to handle to good effect
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
- gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
- hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
- humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- identifiability — to recognize or establish as being a particular person or thing; verify the identity of: to identify handwriting; to identify the bearer of a check.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
- intake manifold — a collection of tubes through which the fuel-air mixture flows from the carburetor or fuel injector to the intake valves of the cylinders of an internal-combustion engine.
- interstratified — Stratified with two alternating types of strata.
- irvine dataflow — (language) (Always called "Id") A non-strict, single assignment language and incremental compiler developed by Arvind and Gostelow and used on MIT's Tagged-Token Dataflow Architecture and planned to be used on Motorola's Monsoon. See also Id Nouveau.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
- lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- lie of the land — the topography of the land
- line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
- linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
- liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
- lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
- man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
- man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
- man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
- marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
- marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.