15-letter words containing f, e, d, i
- 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
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
- heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
- 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
- hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
- i beg to differ — You say 'I beg to differ' when you are politely emphasizing that you disagree with someone.
- 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.
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- in dependent of — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
- in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
- in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the midst of — amid, among
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- indefectibility — The quality of being indefectible.
- indefensibility — The quality or state of not being defensible.
- 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.
- infoword office — (tool) A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
- 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.
- kidasa software — (company) A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
- kingdom of ends — (in Kantian ethics) a metaphorical realm to which belong those persons acting and being acted upon in accordance with moral law.
- land of promise — Promised Land.
- law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
- 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.
- leaf primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
- leave the field — to back out of a competition, contest, etc
- 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
- 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.
- 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.