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

  • 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
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • hard of hearing — partially deaf
  • hausdorff space — a topological space in which each pair of points can be separated by two disjoint open sets containing the points.
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • heredo-familial — denoting a condition or disease that may be passed from generation to generation and to several members of one family
  • 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
  • holiday traffic — increased road traffic during holiday periods and public holidays
  • 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.
  • hyperfastidious — extremely or excessively fastidious
  • 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.
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • kidasa software — (company)   A company which develops project management software for Microsoft Windows.
  • 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.
  • 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 primordium — a group of cells that will develop into a leaf, seen as small bulges just below the shoot apex.
  • 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 apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • linear manifold — subspace (def 2b).
  • loaded for bear — any of the plantigrade, carnivorous or omnivorous mammals of the family Ursidae, having massive bodies, coarse heavy fur, relatively short limbs, and almost rudimentary tails.
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • 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.
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mail order firm — a company that sells goods by mail order
  • 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.
  • medal for merit — a medal awarded by the U.S. to a civilian for distinguished service to the country: discontinued after World War II.
  • medical officer — a doctor of medicine who serves in the armed forces in a medical capacity
  • micromicrofarad — picofarad. Symbol: μμF.
  • 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.
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