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

  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
  • 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.
  • guard of honour — A guard of honour is an official parade of troops, usually to celebrate or honour a special occasion, such as the visit of a head of state.
  • 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
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • 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.
  • humidifications — Plural form of humidification.
  • hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
  • identifications — Plural form of identification.
  • in the hands of — under the control of
  • indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
  • 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.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • jefferson davis — Alexander Jackson, 1803–92, U.S. architect.
  • 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.
  • 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
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • man of his word — a unit of language, consisting of one or more spoken sounds or their written representation, that functions as a principal carrier of meaning. Words are composed of one or more morphemes and are either the smallest units susceptible of independent use or consist of two or three such units combined under certain linking conditions, as with the loss of primary accent that distinguishes black·bird· from black· bird·. Words are usually separated by spaces in writing, and are distinguished phonologically, as by accent, in many languages.
  • man-of-war bird — frigate bird.
  • marfan syndrome — a hereditary disorder characterized by abnormally elongated bones, especially in the extremities, hypermotility of the joints, and circulatory and eye abnormalities.
  • milk of almonds — almond milk.
  • nest of drawers — a miniature chest of drawers made in the 18th century, often set on top of a desk or table.
  • newtonian fluid — any fluid exhibiting a linear relation between the applied shear stress and the rate of deformation.
  • node of ranvier — a gap occurring at regular intervals between segments of myelin sheath along a nerve axon.
  • non-fundamental — serving as, or being an essential part of, a foundation or basis; basic; underlying: fundamental principles; the fundamental structure.
  • noncertificated — not possessing a certificate, not certified
  • nonconfidential — not confidential
  • not lift a hand — to do nothing; not even try
  • of mice and men — a novel (1937) and play (1938) by John Steinbeck.
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • off one's hands — for which one is no longer responsible
  • oil of lavender — an essential oil distilled from lavender flowers, especially Lavandula angustifolia and L. stoechas, and used in perfumery.
  • on a knife-edge — To be on a knife-edge means to be in a situation in which nobody knows what is going to happen next, or in which one thing is just as likely to happen as another.
  • order of canada — an order awarded to Canadians for outstanding achievement; established in 1967
  • overforwardness — the quality of being too familiar
  • pacific madrone — any of several evergreen trees belonging to the genus Arbutus, of the heath family, especially A. menziesii (Pacific madrone) of western North America, having red, flaky bark and bearing edible reddish berries.
  • pandorae fretum — an area in the southern hemisphere of Mars.
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