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15-letter words containing f, e, d, g

  • french dressing — salad dressing prepared chiefly from oil, vinegar, and seasonings.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • frigidoreceptor — a receptor stimulated by cold.
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
  • gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
  • get any good of — to handle to good effect
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
  • godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
  • 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.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
  • greenfield site — a site located in a rural area which has not previously been built on
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
  • high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
  • high-fibre diet — a diet which contains a lot of fibre, supposed to help keep your digestive system healthy
  • 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
  • i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
  • infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • lord high fixer — [Primarily British, from Gilbert & Sullivan's "Lord High Executioner"] The person in an organisation who knows the most about some aspect of a system. See wizard.
  • mbogo, dr. fred — /*m-boh'goh, dok'tr fred/ [Stanford] The archetypal man you don't want to see about a problem, especially an incompetent professional; a shyster. "Do you know a good eye doctor?" "Sure, try Mbogo Eye Care and Professional Dry Cleaning." The name comes from synergy between "bogus" and the original Dr. Mbogo, a witch doctor who was Gomez Addams' physician on the old "Addams Family" TV show. Compare Bloggs Family, the, see also fred.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
  • perfect binding — a technique for binding books by a machine that cuts off the backs of the sections and glues the leaves to a cloth or paper backing.
  • 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.
  • ridgefield park — a town in NE New Jersey.
  • saw-edged knife — a knife with a serrated edge
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-validating — requiring no external confirmation, sanction, or validation.
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