15-letter words containing f, i, g, u, r, e
- age of aquarius — an astrological era believed to bring increased spirituality and harmony on earth.
- ballpark figure — approximate number
- bug fix release — (programming) A release which introduces no new features, but which merely aims to fix bugs in previous releases. All too commonly new bugs are introduced at the same time.
- butter-fingered — a person who frequently drops things; clumsy person.
- centrifugal box — a revolving chamber, used in the spinning of manufactured filaments, in which the plastic fibers, subjected to centrifugal force, are slightly twisted and emerge in the form of yarn wound into the shape of a hollow cylinder.
- channel surfing — to change from one channel on a television set to another with great or unusual frequency, especially by using a remote control.
- channel-surfing — Channel-surfing is the same as channel-hopping.
- counterflashing — (construction) Formed metal or elastomeric sheeting secured on or into a wall, curb, pipe or other surface, to cover and protect the upper edge of a base flashing and its associated fasteners.
- creeping fescue — red fescue.
- customer-facing — interacting or communicating directly with customers
- disgracefulness — The state or quality of being disgraceful.
- drug trafficker — someone that trades in illegal drugs
- feeding grounds — the place where animals gather to find food
- figurate number — a number having the property that the same number of equally spaced dots can be arranged in the shape of a regular geometrical figure.
- figure of eight — figure eight.
- figure of merit — a measure of the efficiency of a helicopter in hover
- flapping router — (networking) A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
- fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
- flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
- flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
- focusing screen — a camera in which the image appears on a ground-glass viewer (focusing screen) after being reflected by a mirror or after passing through a prism or semitransparent glass; in one type (single-lens reflex camera) light passes through the same lens to both the ground glass and the film, while in another type (twin-lens reflex camera) light passes through one lens (viewing lens) to the ground glass and through a second lens (taking lens) to the film, the lenses being mechanically coupled for focusing.
- forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
- founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
- founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
- french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
- geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
- 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.
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
- nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
- perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
- self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
- semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
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