14-letter words containing f, o, g, l
- flight officer — an officer of the U.S. Army Air Force in World War II, having a rank equivalent to that of a warrant officer junior grade.
- flight surgeon — a medical officer in the U.S. Air Force who is trained in aviation medicine.
- floating cloud — Drifting Cloud, The.
- floating heart — any of certain aquatic plants belonging to the genus Nymphoides, of the gentian family, especially N. aquatica, having floating, more or less heart-shaped leaves and a cluster of small, white, five-petaled flowers.
- floating point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
- floating stock — stock not held for permanent investment and hence available for speculation; stock held by brokers and speculators rather than investors.
- floating voter — those voters collectively who are not permanently attached to any political party.
- floating-point — a decimal point whose location is not fixed, used especially in computer operations.
- flood coverage — Flood coverage is insurance coverage for loss or damage caused by floods.
- floor covering — any material used to cover the floor of a room, such as a carpet or tiles
- floor planning — a system of financing that permits a dealer to borrow money to buy goods, which become the security for the loan that is repaid when the merchandise is sold.
- floorcoverings — Plural form of floorcovering.
- flotation bags — bags inflated to keep a spacecraft or helicopter afloat and upright when it lands in the sea
- flowering crab — any of several species and varieties of crab apple trees with small fruits and abundant spring flowers ranging from white to reddish purple
- flowering flax — a plant, Linum grandiflorum, of northern Africa, having quickly fading, red or pink flowers.
- flowering moss — pyxie.
- fluid coupling — Machinery. an apparatus in which a fluid, usually oil, transmits torque from one shaft to another, producing an equal torque in the other shaft.
- flying colours — conspicuous success; triumph
- flying officer — an officer holding commissioned rank senior to a pilot officer but junior to a flight lieutenant in the British and certain other air forces
- focusing cloth — an opaque cloth surrounding the ground glass of a camera so as to shield the eyes of the photographer from light that would otherwise prevent seeing the image in the ground glass.
- folies bergere — a Parisian music hall founded in 1869 and noted for the lavish spectacle and mildly risqué content of its entertainments.
- folk etymology — a modification of a linguistic form according either to a falsely assumed etymology, as Welsh rarebit from Welsh rabbit, or to a historically irrelevant analogy, as bridegroom from bridegome.
- follow through — the act of following.
- follow-through — the completion of a motion, as in the stroke of a tennis racket.
- following wind — a wind that is moving in the same direction as the course of a vessel etc
- food colouring — substances used to impart colour to food
- food labelling — the practice of providing nutritional information on labels on food packaging
- forced landing — aircraft: emergency descent
- foreign legion — a military unit consisting of foreign volunteers in the service of a state.
- foreign policy — a policy pursued by a nation in its dealings with other nations, designed to achieve national objectives.
- forethoughtful — full of or having forethought; provident.
- forget oneself — to cease or fail to remember; be unable to recall: to forget someone's name.
- formal grammar — a set of syntactically valid formation rules of a formal language
- formula weight — (of a molecule) molecular weight.
- fortunetelling — the act or practice of predicting the future.
- frege, gottlob — Gottlob Frege
- french bulldog — one of a French breed of small, bat-eared dogs having a large, square head, a short tail, and a short, sleek coat.
- full as a goog — drunk
- 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