15-letter words containing f, o, g, l, a
- formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
- forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- gaming platform — a computer system specially made for playing video games; a console: The new gaming platforms have much better graphics resolution than previous generation consoles.
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
- get out of jail — to get out of a difficult situation
- ghetto fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- ghetto-fabulous — pertaining to or noting a lifestyle of showy but superficial glamour and luxury that is sometimes adopted by people in or from an urban ghetto: That man is just ghetto-fabulous; his bling wears bling!
- giant sunflower — a composite plant, Helianthus giganteus, of eastern North America, growing nearly 12 feet (4 meters) high and having very large yellow flower heads.
- go up in flames — be burned
- goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
- 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.
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- gulf of argolis — an inlet of the Aegean Sea, in the E Peloponnese
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
- gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
- gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
- haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- 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
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
- judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
- langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
- law of averages — a statistical principle formulated by Jakob Bernoulli to show a more or less predictable ratio between the number of random trials of an event and its occurrences.
- lay a finger on — to harm
- 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
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
- legacy software — legacy system
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
- mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
- mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
- nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
- photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
- phytoflagellate — any microscopic flagellate that is photosynthetic.
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.