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15-letter words containing f, a, l, t, r

  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
  • fuller's teasel — a Eurasian teasel plant, Dipsacus fullonum, whose prickly flower heads are used for raising the nap on woollen cloth
  • fumitory family — the plant family Fumariaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having deeply cut basal or alternate leaves, flowers with four petals of which one or two are spurred or lobed, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the bleeding heart, Dutchman's-breeches, fumitory, and squirrel corn.
  • funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
  • fusospirochetal — Relating to fusospirochetes.
  • futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
  • gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
  • giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
  • 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.
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
  • 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.
  • inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
  • informationally — In an informational manner.
  • infrastructural — the basic, underlying framework or features of a system or organization.
  • inter-fraternal — of or befitting a brother or brothers; brotherly.
  • interfascicular — pertaining to or forming a fascicle; fasciculate.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • intrafascicular — between the xylem and phloem elements of a vascular bundle
  • irreformability — the state or condition of being irreformable
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • 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.
  • java 2 platform — Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
  • kaffeeklatscher — a person who participates, especially regularly, in a kaffee klatsch.
  • lateral fissure — the fissure separating the frontal, temporal, and parietal lobes of the cerebrum.
  • law-enforcement — of police, anti-crime
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
  • 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.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
  • linear function — linear transformation.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • malconformation — Imperfect, disproportionate, or abnormal formation; disproportion of parts.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • microfiltration — Filtration through a microporous membrane.
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
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