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15-letter words containing f, e, r, n, d

  • french canadian — a descendant of the early French colonists of Canada.
  • 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
  • fresh-air fiend — a person who enjoys being outdoors or having good ventilation when indoors
  • friedmann model — any model of the universe deduced from a homogeneous, isotropic solution of Einstein's field equations without a cosmological constant. Such models form the mathematical basis for many modern cosmologies and provide for expansion or contraction of the universe.
  • friedrichshafen — a city in Baden-Württemberg, S Germany, on Lake Constance.
  • friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
  • frozen daiquiri — a cocktail consisting of rum, lemon or lime juice, and sugar, vigorously beaten together with finely crushed ice and served with a straw.
  • frozen shoulder — joint stiffness at top of arm
  • furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • gender-specific — for, characteristic of, or limited to either males or females: Left-handedness is not gender-specific.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • 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 deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • 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.
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • 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.
  • maidenhair fern — any fern of the cosmopolitan genus Adiantum, esp A. capillis-veneris, having delicate fan-shaped fronds with small pale-green leaflets: family Adiantaceae
  • man-made fabric — a type of fabric that is made artificially, such as polyester or rayon, rather than occurring naturally, like cotton or wool
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • marie de france — flourished 12th century, French poet in England.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • nimble-fingered — able to move the fingers agilely, quickly, and neatly
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • odoriferousness — The quality of being odoriferous.
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