15-letter words containing f, o, l, s
- court of claims — (in the US) a court that hears claims against the federal government
- cross of valour — the highest Canadian award for bravery
- cross-fertilize — to subject or be subjected to cross-fertilization
- crossfunctional — Spanning several functions.
- crown-of-jewels — an annual herb, Lopezia coronata, of Mexico, having lilac-colored flowers with a red base.
- crystalliferous — producing or containing crystals
- deadman's float — a prone floating position, used especially by beginning swimmers, with face downward, legs extended backward, and arms stretched forward.
- declare oneself — to state strongly one's opinion
- defence counsel — a barrister or group of barristers responsible for defending someone on trial
- demulsification — to break down (an emulsion) into separate substances incapable of re-forming the emulsion that was broken down.
- dessertspoonful — You can refer to an amount of food resting on a dessertspoon as a dessertspoonful of food.
- desulfurization — The process of removing sulfur from a substance, such as flue gas or crude.
- dinoflagellates — Plural form of dinoflagellate.
- disinflationary — (economics) Exhibiting or causing reduced inflation.
- do oneself well — to achieve success for oneself
- draw oneself up — to assume a straighter posture; stand or sit straight
- droste-hulshoff — Annette Elisabeth Freiin von [ah-net-uh ey-lee-zah-bet frahy-in fuh n] /ɑˈnɛt ə eɪˈli zɑˌbɛt ˈfraɪ ɪn fən/ (Show IPA), 1797–1848, German poet.
- dysfunctionally — not performing normally, as an organ or structure of the body; malfunctioning.
- elephant's-foot — a monocotyledonous plant, Testudinaria elephantipes, of southern Africa, with a very large starchy tuberous stem, covered in corky scales: family Dioscoreaceae
- explain oneself — to make clear what one means
- express oneself — to communicate one's thoughts or ideas
- factor analysis — the use of one of several methods for reducing a set of variables to a lesser number of new variables, each of which is a function of one or more of the original variables.
- faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
- fahnestock clip — a type of terminal using a spring that clamps readily onto a connecting wire.
- fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
- fallout shelter — protective bunker
- false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
- false hellebore — any of various plants belonging to the genus Veratrum, of the lily family, especially a North American species, V. viride, which has clusters of yellowish-green flowers and is the source of substances used in certain medicines and insecticides.
- false miterwort — foamflower.
- familiarisation — Alternative spelling of familiarization.
- family division — a division of the High Court of Justice dealing with divorce, the rights of access to children, etc
- family skeleton — a closely guarded family secret
- fantasmagorical — Alternative form of phantasmagorical.
- fasciolopsiasis — a parasitic disease caused by flukes of the genus Fasciolopsis and characterized by abdominal pain and diarrhea: common in the Far East.
- fashionableness — The state of being fashionable; stylishness; elegance.
- fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
- feast of lights — Hanukkah.
- feel one's oats — a cereal grass, Avena sativa, cultivated for its edible seed.
- ferroelasticity — (physics) A phenomenon, analogous to ferromagnetism and ferroelectricity, in which spontaneous strain arises within a material.
- ferrous sulfate — a bluish-green, crystalline, saline-tasting, water-soluble heptahydrated solid, FeSO 4 ⋅7H 2 O, used chiefly in the manufacture of other iron salts, in water purification, fertilizer, inks, pigments, tanning, photography, and in medicine in the treatment of anemia.
- ferrous sulfide — a dark or black metallic crystalline compound, FeS, insoluble in water, soluble in acids, used in ceramics and to generate hydrogen sulfide.
- fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
- fibrocartilages — Plural form of fibrocartilage.
- field of vision — the entire view encompassed by the eye when it is trained in any particular direction.
- fifth columnist — A fifth columnist is someone who secretly supports and helps the enemies of the country or organization they are in.
- file descriptor — (programming, operating system) An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
- filling station — service station (def 1).
- fireless cooker — an insulated container that seals in heat to cook food.
- first world war — World War I.
- five-star hotel — a top-quality hotel offering exceptional luxury