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15-letter words containing f, l, u, g

  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • 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.
  • league football — rugby league football
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • office building — building containing offices
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • self-fulfilling — characterized by or bringing about self-fulfillment.
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
  • supporting film — a film that accompanies the main feature film in a film programme
  • the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
  • transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
  • ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
  • underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
  • van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
  • well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
  • wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
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