15-letter words containing e, o, l
- fellow creature — a kindred creature, especially a fellow human being.
- fellow traveler — a person who supports or sympathizes with a political party, especially the Communist Party, but is not an enrolled member.
- ferric chloride — a compound that in its anhydrous form, FeCl 3 , occurs as a black-brown, water-soluble solid; in its hydrated form, FeCl 3 ⋅xH 2 O, it occurs in orange-yellow, deliquescent crystals: used chiefly in engraving, for deodorizing sewage, as a mordant, and in medicine as an astringent and styptic.
- ferrihemoglobin — methemoglobin.
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- ferromolybdenum — a ferroalloy containing up to 60 percent molybdenum.
- ferrous sulfate — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
- fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- field of honour — the place or scene of a battle or duel, esp of jousting tournaments in medieval times
- field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
- field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury
- flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
- flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
- flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
- flannelled fool — a cricketer
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- flatter oneself — to hold the self-satisfying or self-deluding belief (that)
- flavor enhancer — a substance added to food in order to enhance or intensify its flavor: Salt is a common flavor enhancer.
- flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
- flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
- flesh and blood — offspring or relatives: one's own flesh and blood.
- flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
- flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
- flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
- floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
- floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
- flock wallpaper — a type of wallpaper with a raised pattern
- flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
- floods of tears — If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
- floor exercises — exercises designed to improve fitness, carried out on the floor
- floral envelope — the calyx and corolla of a flower.
- floral tributes — bunches or arrangements of flowers left as a memorial at the site of a fatal incident
- florence fennel — a variety of fennel, Foeniculum vulgare azoricum, having enlarged leaf bases, which are blanched and used especially as an ingredient in salads.
- florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
- floriferousness — Quality of being floriferous, or bearing many flowers.
- flowerhorn fish — a brightly coloured cichlid fish with a large protuberance on the head
- flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- flowers of zinc — a white or yellowish-white, amorphous, odorless, water-insoluble powder, ZnO, used chiefly as a paint pigment, in cosmetics, dental cements, matches, white printing inks, and opaque glass, and in medicine in the treatment of skin conditions.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- fluorochemicals — Plural form of fluorochemical.
- fluorophosphate — a salt or ester of a fluorophosphoric acid.
- fluoroquinolone — Any of a class of therapeutic antibiotics that are active against a range of bacteria associated with human and animal diseases. Their use in livestock has sparked concerns about the spread of bacteria resistant to them in humans.
- fly honeysuckle — either of two honeysuckle shrubs, Lonicera canadensis, of eastern North America, or L. xylosteum, of Eurasia, having paired yellowish flowers tinged with red.