14-letter words containing f, l, o
- funnily enough — You use funnily enough to indicate that, although something is surprising, it is true or really happened.
- gallery forest — a narrow strip of woods or forest along the banks of a watercourse flowing through open country.
- gelatification — the process of gelatinizing.
- gelatiniferous — Yielding gelatine on boiling with water; capable of gelatination.
- get hold of sb — If you get hold of someone, you manage to contact them.
- glanduliferous — having glands or glandules
- golfer's elbow — a painful inflammation of the muscles on the inside of the forearm caused by exertion in playing golf
- goodfellowship — cheerful company
- gouldian finch — a multicoloured finch, Chloebia gouldiae, of tropical N Australia
- gulf of alaska — the N part of the Pacific, between the Alaska Peninsula and the Alexander Archipelago
- gulf of anadyr — an inlet of the Bering Sea, off the coast of NE Russia
- gulf of cambay — an inlet of the Arabian Sea on the W coast of India, southeast of the Kathiawar Peninsula
- 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
- gulf of mannar — the part of the Indian Ocean between SE India and the island of Sri Lanka: pearl fishing
- gulf of mexico — a republic in S North America. 761,530 sq. mi. (1,972,363 sq. km). . Capital: Mexico City.
- gulf of panama — a wide inlet of the Pacific in Panama
- gulf of tonkin — an arm of the South China Sea, bordered by N Vietnam, the Leizhou Peninsula of SW China, and Hainan Island. Length: about 500 km (300 miles)
- half seas over — of, relating to, or adapted for use at sea.
- half sovereign — a gold coin of the United Kingdom, discontinued in 1917, equal to 10 shillings.
- half-completed — having all parts or elements; lacking nothing; whole; entire; full: a complete set of Mark Twain's writings.
- half-concealed — to hide; withdraw or remove from observation; cover or keep from sight: He concealed the gun under his coat.
- half-conscious — aware of one's own existence, sensations, thoughts, surroundings, etc.
- half-convinced — to move by argument or evidence to belief, agreement, consent, or a course of action: to convince a jury of his guilt; A test drive will convince you that this car handles well.
- half-forgotten — a past participle of forget.
- half-lap joint — a joint between two timbers halved together so that a flush surface results.
- half-note rest — a pause of half a semibreve
- half-seas over — drunk; intoxicated; inebriated.
- half-smothered — to stifle or suffocate, as by smoke or other means of preventing free breathing.
- halfpennyworth — As much as could be bought for a halfpenny.
- have the floor — have a turn to speak publicly
- health officer — an official who administers laws pertaining to health, especially sanitation.
- height of land — a watershed
- hemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, especially of the genera Trypanosoma and Leishmania, that is parasitic in the blood.
- hero's formula — the formula for the area of a triangle when the sides are given: for a triangle with sides a, b, and c, the area is equal to , where s is equal to one half the perimeter of the triangle.
- heteroflexible — (of a person) predominantly heterosexual but not exclusively so
- hold the field — to maintain one's position in the face of opposition
- hold your fire — If someone holds their fire or holds fire, they stop shooting or they wait before they start shooting.
- holland finish — an oil and sizing or starch finish applied to cotton fabrics to increase their opacity and strength.
- holy of holies — a place of special sacredness.
- hopfield model — Hopfield network
- horn of plenty — cornucopia.
- house of lords — the nonelective, upper house of the British Parliament, comprising the lords spiritual and lords temporal.
- hydrosulfurous — hyposulfurous.
- hyperinflation — extreme or excessive inflation.
- ill-suited for — unsuitable for something
- in lieu of sth — If you do, get, or give one thing in lieu of another, you do, get, or give it instead of the other thing, because the two things are considered to have the same value or importance.
- indian buffalo — a member of the cattle tribe, Bubalus bubalis, of swampy regions of S Asia, having widely spreading back-curving horns. Domesticated forms are used as draught animals
- inertial force — an imaginary force which an accelerated observer postulates so that he can use the equations appropriate to an inertial observer
- infelicitously — In a way that is infelicitous or unfortunate.
- inflammatories — Plural form of inflammatory.