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15-letter words containing f, i, d, l, n

  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • 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.
  • frisian islands — a chain of islands in the North Sea along the coasts of the Netherlands, Germany, and Denmark: separated from the mainland by shallows
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • 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
  • 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
  • gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • 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
  • 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.
  • in difficulties — in distress, esp. financially
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • infrared galaxy — a galaxy that radiates strongly in the infrared portion of the electromagnetic spectrum.
  • infundibuliform — having the shape of a funnel; funnel-shaped.
  • 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.
  • irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
  • 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
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • 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).
  • liquid paraffin — a colourless almost tasteless oily liquid obtained by petroleum distillation and used as a laxative
  • 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.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
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