15-letter words containing f, l, a, n, e
- fraternal order — men's organization
- fraternal twins — one of a pair of twins, not necessarily resembling each other, or of the same sex, that develop from two separately fertilized ova.
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- 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
- friar's lantern — ignis fatuus (def 1).
- 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.
- fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
- frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
- full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
- fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
- functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- 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.
- funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
- funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
- funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- 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.
- glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
- 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 fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- 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
- half-understood — partially understood
- halfheartedness — The characteristic of being half-hearted.
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- 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.
- 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
- 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.