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15-letter words containing f, o, l, s

  • get hold of sth — If you get hold of an object or information, you obtain it, usually after some difficulty.
  • 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
  • golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
  • good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
  • gulf of argolis — an inlet of the Aegean Sea, in the E Peloponnese
  • gulf of fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
  • heralds' office — the official heraldic authority of Scotland.
  • hopeful monster — a hypothetical individual organism that, by means of a fortuitous macromutation permitting an adaptive shift to a new mode of life, becomes the founder of a new type of organism and a vehicle of macroevolution.
  • hundred flowers — the 1957 political campaign in the People's Republic of China to encourage greater freedom of intellectual expression, initiated by Mao Zedong under the slogan “Let a hundred flowers bloom, let a hundred schools of thought contend.”.
  • if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
  • inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
  • inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
  • infants' school — kindergarten.
  • interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.
  • irish wolfhound — one of an Irish breed of large, tall dogs having a rough, wiry coat ranging in color from white to brindle to black.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • isle of sheppey — an island in SE England, off the N coast of Kent in the Thames estuary: separated from the mainland by The Swale, a narrow channel. Chief towns: Sheerness, Minster. Pop: 37 852 (2001 est). Area: 80 sq km (30 sq miles)
  • keep to oneself — to hold or retain in one's possession; hold as one's own: If you like it, keep it. Keep the change.
  • kirchhoff's law — the law that the algebraic sum of the currents flowing toward any point in an electric network is zero.
  • lake miraflores — an artificial lake in Panama, in the S Canal Zone of the Panama Canal
  • land of promise — Promised Land.
  • latensification — (in photography) the process of intensifying a latent image by the use of chemicals, extra exposure to light, or other means
  • latino-faliscan — a group of early Italic languages, including Latin and Faliscan.
  • 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 oneself out — to put or place in a horizontal position or position of rest; set down: to lay a book on a desk.
  • leaves of grass — a book of poems (first edition, 1855; final edition, 1891–92) by Walt Whitman.
  • legacy software — legacy system
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • liaison officer — a person who liaises between groups or units
  • lifestyle block — a semi-rural property comprising a house and land for small-scale farming
  • line of apsides — a line joining the lower and higher apsides, forming the major axis of the orbit
  • line of descent — someone's line of descent is all the people they are descended from
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • liver of sulfur — sulfurated potash.
  • lofoten islands — group of Norwegian islands within the Arctic Circle, off the NW coast of Norway: c. 550 sq mi (1,424 sq km)
  • loft conversion — an extra room added to a house by converting the roof space
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • longshore drift — beach drift.
  • lopez y fuentes — Gregorio [gre-gaw-ryaw] /grɛˈgɔ ryɔ/ (Show IPA), 1895–1966, Mexican writer.
  • lord of misrule — (in England) a person formerly chosen to direct the Christmas revels and sports.
  • louis of nassau — 1538–74, a leader (1568–74) of the revolt of the Netherlands against Spain: died in battle
  • low pass filter — (electronics, graphics)   A filter that attenuates high frequency components of a signal. In image processing, a low pass filter might be used to remove noise from an image.
  • low-pass filter — a filter that transmits all frequencies below a specified value, substantially attenuating frequencies above this value
  • maid of orléans — Saint ("the Maid of Orléans") 1412?–31, French national heroine and martyr who raised the siege of Orléans.
  • mellifluousness — sweetly or smoothly flowing; sweet-sounding: a mellifluous voice; mellifluous tones.
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