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

  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • 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.
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • forehand volley — a type of forehand shot played in tennis
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • forward echelon — (in a military operation) the troops and officers in a combat zone or in a position to engage the enemy.
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • fraternal order — men's organization
  • 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
  • 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.
  • fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • 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
  • 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.
  • gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
  • 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
  • hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
  • 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.
  • indefeasibility — The state or quality of being indefeasible, of being incapable of being defeated.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • law of identity — the law that any proposition implies itself.
  • lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the 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.
  • 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
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