14-letter words containing f, i, l, n, g, e
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- flinders grass — a drought-resistant pasture grass, Iseilema membranacea, native to inland regions of Australia and used as fodder.
- flinders range — a mountain range in S Australia. Highest peak, St. Mary Peak, 3900 feet (1190 meters).
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- flying machine — a vehicle that sustains itself in and propels itself through the air; an airplane, helicopter, glider, or the like.
- flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
- flying trapeze — a trapeze used in performing gymnastic displays high above the ground
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- foreign legion — a military unit consisting of foreign volunteers in the service of a state.
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- framing chisel — a woodworking chisel for heavy work and deep cuts, often having a handle reinforced to withstand blows from a metal hammer head.
- freewheelingly — In a freewheeling manner; without constraint.
- fungible issue — a bond issued by a company on the same terms as a bond previously issued by that company, although the redemption yield will probably be different
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- gentian family — the plant family Gentianaceae, typified by herbaceous plants having simple opposite leaves, usually blue flowers with five united petals, and fruit in the form of a capsule, and including the closed gentian, fringed gentian, centaury, exacum, and marsh pink.
- ginseng family — the plant family Araliaceae, characterized by often prickly herbaceous plants, trees, and shrubs having alternate leaves and dense clusters of small, whitish or greenish flowers, and including the devil's-club, ginseng, ivy, schefflera, and wild sarsaparilla.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- gulf of guinea — a large inlet of the S Atlantic on the W coast of Africa, extending from Cape Palmas, Liberia, to Cape Lopez, Gabon: contains two large bays, the Bight of Bonny and the Bight of Benin, separated by the Niger delta
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-pedalling — a technique of piano playing in which the sustaining pedal is raised and immediately depressed thus allowing the lower strings to continue sounding
- height of land — a watershed
- in single file — one behind another
- insightfulness — The state or condition of being insightful.
- killing fields — People sometimes refer to a battlefield or a place where many people have been killed as that place's killing fields.
- left-branching — (of a grammatical construction) characterized by greater structural complexity in the position preceding the head, as the phrase my brother's friend's house; having most of the constituents on the left in a tree diagram (opposed to right-branching).
- life-affirming — A life-affirming activity or attitude emphasizes the positive aspects of life.
- life-enhancing — If you describe something as life-enhancing, you mean that it makes you feel happier and more content.
- light-fingered — skillful at or given to pilfering, especially by picking pockets; thievish.
- lignosulfonate — a brown powder consisting of a sulfonate salt made from waste liquor of the sulfate pulping process of soft wood: used in concrete, leather tanning, as an additive in oil-well drilling mud, and as a source of vanillin.
- line of flight — the flight path of something travelling from one place to another
- long-suffering — enduring injury, trouble, or provocation long and patiently.
- lunatic fringe — members on the periphery of any group, especially political, social, or religious, who hold extreme or fanatical views.
- magnetic field — a region of space near a magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle in which a magnetic force acts on any other magnet, electric current, or moving charged particle.
- man of galilee — Jesus.
- meaningfulness — full of meaning, significance, purpose, or value; purposeful; significant: a meaningful wink; a meaningful choice.
- miniature golf — a game or amusement modeled on golf and played with a putter and golf ball, in which each very short, grassless “hole” constitutes an obstacle course, consisting of wooden alleys, tunnels, bridges, etc., through which the ball must be driven to hole it.
- mixed feelings — conflicted emotions
- morgain le fay — Morgan le Fay.
- outing flannel — a light cotton flannel with a short, dense nap.
- oxford english — that form of the received pronunciation of English supposed to be typical of Oxford University and regarded by many as affected or pretentious