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15-letter words containing f, u, g, e

  • gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • 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 fonseca — an inlet of the Pacific Ocean in W Central America
  • gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
  • insight-fulness — characterized by or displaying insight; perceptive.
  • judge of appeal — a judge who sits in a Court of Appeal
  • langue de boeuf — ox-tongue partisan.
  • leaf-footed bug — any of numerous plant-sucking or predaceous bugs of the family Coreidae, typically having leaflike legs: several species are pests of food crops.
  • league football — rugby league football
  • let yourself go — If you let yourself go, you relax and behave much more freely than usual.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • nuke the fridge — (of a film, etc.) to lose credibility following a particularly ill-judged scene or plot development
  • off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
  • office building — building containing offices
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
  • public offering — a sale of a new issue of securities to the general public through a managing underwriter (opposed to private placement): required to be registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
  • purple foxglove — a medicinal plant, Digitalis purpurea, of western Europe, having finger-shaped, spotted, purple flowers and leaves from which digitalis is obtained.
  • qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
  • quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
  • reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
  • red jungle fowl — any of several East Indian, gallinaceous birds of the genus Gallus, as G. gallus (red jungle fowl) believed to be the ancestor of the domestic fowl.
  • reference group — a group with which an individual identifies and whose values the individual accepts as guiding principles.
  • refuelling stop — a stop made so that fresh fuel can be supplied (to an aircraft, vehicle, etc)
  • refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
  • rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
  • ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
  • self-fulfilling — characterized by or bringing about self-fulfillment.
  • self-indulgence — indulging one's own desires, passions, whims, etc., especially without restraint.
  • self-justifying — offering excuses for oneself, especially in excess of normal demands.
  • self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
  • self-regulation — control by oneself or itself, as in an economy, business organization, etc., especially such control as exercised independently of governmental supervision, laws, or the like.
  • self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
  • self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
  • self-renouncing — to give up or put aside voluntarily: to renounce worldly pleasures.
  • self-subsisting — to exist; continue in existence.
  • self-suggestion — the act of suggesting.
  • self-supporting — the supporting or maintaining of oneself or itself without reliance on outside aid.
  • self-sustaining — self-supporting.
  • semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
  • sigmoid flexure — Zoology. an S -shaped curve in a body part.
  • single-cut file — a file with teeth in one direction only: used for filing soft material
  • star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
  • sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
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