15-letter words containing f, r, o, n, t
- freak of nature — a person or animal that is born or grows with abnormal physical features.
- frederick north — Christopher, pen name of John Wilson.
- free throw lane — the rectangular area, 19 feet (5.7 meters) long and usually 12 or 16 feet (3.6 m or 4.8 meters) wide, extending from the end line behind each backboard to the foul line and along the sides of which players line up during a foul shot.
- free throw line — foul line (def 2).
- free-trade zone — foreign-trade zone. free port (def 1). Abbreviation: FTZ.
- freestone state — Connecticut (used as a nickname).
- french overture — a short piece in three movements common in the 17th and 18th centuries
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- french vermouth — a dry aromatic white wine
- friction clutch — a clutch in which one part turns another by friction between them.
- friend at court — a friend in a position of influence or power who may advance one's interests, especially a helpful person who is close to someone in authority.
- fringing forest — gallery forest.
- from sun to sun — from sunrise to sunset
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- frontal cyclone — any extratropical cyclone associated with a front: the most common cyclonic storm.
- fructifications — Plural form of fructification.
- full outer join — outer join
- funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
- furniture depot — a shop that sells the movable, generally functional, articles that equip a room, house, etc
- furniture mover — person: removal worker
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- 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.
- 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 for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
- 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.
- 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
- 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
- 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 corinth — an inlet of the Ionian Sea between the Peloponnese and central Greece
- gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
- half-understood — partially understood
- heterofullerene — (chemistry) Any compound formally derived from a fullerene by replacing one or more carbon atom by a heteroatom.
- 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.
- hydrofracturing — a process in which fractures in rocks below the earth's surface are opened and widened by injecting chemicals and liquids at high pressure: used especially to extract natural gas or oil.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- 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
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- inflation-proof — not affected by inflation
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informationally — In an informational manner.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- interferometers — Plural form of interferometer.
- interferometric — Of or pertaining to interferometry or interferometers.
- interfoliaceous — situated between leaves, especially opposite leaves.