15-letter words containing e, n, f, o, l, d
- 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
- 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.
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- 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
- hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
- in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
- 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.
- 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.
- 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
- 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.
- 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
- line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
- linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
- lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
- longshore drift — beach drift.
- maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
- newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
- non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
- nonconfidential — not confidential
- office building — building containing offices
- oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
- overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
- personal friend — a person who is a friend, rather than a colleague or acquaintance
- profoundly deaf — unable to hear any sound below 95 decibels in one's better ear
- read oneself in — to assume possession of a benefice by publicly reading the Thirty-nine Articles
- red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
- scolopendriform — resembling scolopendra
- self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
- self-confidence — realistic confidence in one's own judgment, ability, power, etc.
- self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
- self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
- self-definition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
- self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
- self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
- self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
- self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
- self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
- selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
- sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
- summer flounder — a flounder, Paralichthys dentatus, inhabiting shallow waters from Cape Cod to South Carolina, valued as food.
- sunflower seeds — the seeds of a sunflower, which can be eaten
- tower of london — a historic fortress in London, England: originally a royal palace, later a prison, now an arsenal and museum.