15-letter words containing f, i, n, a, l
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- 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
- functionability — functional (def 3).
- 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.
- functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
- functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
- funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
- futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
- general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
- genetic fallacy — the fallacy of confusing questions of validity and logical order with questions of origin and temporal order.
- 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.
- gesneria family — the plant family Gesneriaceae, characterized by herbaceous plants having a basal rosette of usually toothed leaves, tubular two-lipped flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or capsule, and including the African violet, gloxinia, and streptocarpus.
- 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.
- go up in flames — be burned
- 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.
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- greenfield park — a town in S Quebec, in E Canada, near Montreal.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- 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
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- 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 a family way — pregnant; with child
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
- ineffaceability — Quality of being ineffaceable.
- ineffectualness — Inefficacy.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- infantilization — The act or process of infantilizing, or treating a non-infant as an infant.
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- infeasible path — dead code
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- infinite baffle — a loudspeaker enclosure that totally separates sound emanating from the rear of the speaker cone from sound emanating in front, so as to prevent mutual interference.
- infinitesimally — indefinitely or exceedingly small; minute: infinitesimal vessels in the circulatory system.
- inflammableness — The quality of being inflammable.