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15-letter words containing f, l, o, d, t

  • fraternal order — men's organization
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • 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.
  • gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • 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.
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • leadwort family — the plant family Plumbaginaceae, characterized by shrubs and herbaceous plants of seacoasts and semiarid regions, having basal or alternate leaves, spikelike clusters of tubular flowers, and dry, one-seeded fruit, and including leadwort, sea lavender, statice, and thrift.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • lie of the land — the topography of the land
  • lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • look forward to — to turn one's eyes toward something or in some direction in order to see: He looked toward the western horizon and saw the returning planes.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • nonconfidential — not confidential
  • not lift a hand — to do nothing; not even try
  • old father time — time personified
  • order of battle — the organization or hierarchy of military forces in preparation for a battle.
  • overconfidently — In an overconfident manner.
  • overdraft limit — a limit on the amount of money allowed to be withdrawn in excess of the credit balance of a bank or building society account
  • photoflood lamp — an incandescent tungsten lamp in which high intensity is obtained by overloading voltage: used in photography, television, etc.
  • potash feldspar — any of the feldspar minerals having the composition KAlSi 3 O 8 , as orthoclase.
  • profit and loss — the gain and loss arising from commercial or other transactions, applied especially to an account or statement of account in bookkeeping showing gains and losses in business.
  • seafood platter — a plate of assorted seafood, served in a restaurant
  • self-admiration — a feeling of wonder, pleasure, or approval.
  • self-authorized — given or endowed with authority: an authorized agent.
  • self-controlled — Someone who is self-controlled is able to not show their feelings or not do the things that their feelings make them want to do.
  • self-dedication — the act of dedicating.
  • self-definition — the act of defining, or of making something definite, distinct, or clear: We need a better definition of her responsibilities.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-hypnotized — hypnotized by oneself.
  • self-inoculated — to implant (a disease agent or antigen) in a person, animal, or plant to produce a disease for study or to stimulate disease resistance.
  • self-medication — the use of medicine without medical supervision to treat one's own ailment.
  • self-production — produced by oneself or itself.
  • self-solicitude — the state of being solicitous; anxiety or concern.
  • selfabandonment — absence or lack of personal restraint.
  • slashdot effect — a temporary surge in the numbers visiting a website and consequent service slowdown or even server crash that sometimes arises as a result of a new link being set up from a more popular website
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