15-letter words containing f, o
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- good-fellowship — a pleasant, convivial spirit; comradeship; geniality.
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- grace-and-favor — noting a residence owned by a noble or sovereign and bestowed by him or her upon some person for that person's lifetime.
- 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.
- grafenberg spot — a patch of tissue in the front wall of the vagina, claimed to be erectile and highly erogenous.
- granitification — the process or action of forming into granite
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- 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.
- green footprint — the impact of a building on the environment
- greenbottle fly — any of several metallic-green blowflies, as Phaenicia sericata.
- griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
- 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.
- guest of honour — If you say that someone is the guest of honour at a dinner or other social occasion, you mean that they are the most important guest.
- 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 corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- 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
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- hacking x for y — [ITS] Ritual phrasing of part of the information which ITS made publicly available about each user. This information (the INQUIR record) was a sort of form in which the user could fill out various fields. On display, two of these fields were always combined into a project description of the form "Hacking X for Y" (e.g. ""Hacking perceptrons for Minsky""). This form of description became traditional and has since been carried over to other systems with more general facilities for self-advertisement (such as Unix plan files).
- haemoflagellate — a flagellate protozoan, such as a trypanosome, that is parasitic in the blood
- hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- half-understood — partially understood
- han unification — Han character
- hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
- 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.
- have an eye for — the organ of sight, in vertebrates typically one of a pair of spherical bodies contained in an orbit of the skull and in humans appearing externally as a dense, white, curved membrane, or sclera, surrounding a circular, colored portion, or iris, that is covered by a clear, curved membrane, or cornea, and in the center of which is an opening, or pupil, through which light passes to the retina.
- have no use for — to employ for some purpose; put into service; make use of: to use a knife.
- have the ear of — to be in a position to influence
- heart of hearts — the depths of one's conscience or emotions
- heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
- help oneself to — to serve or provide oneself with (food, etc.)
- 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
- heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
- high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- hoffman estates — a city in NE Illinois.
- 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.
- 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.
- hour after hour — continuously for many hours
- house of prayer — house of God.