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15-letter words containing f, u, g

  • forget about it — don't mention it, you're welcome
  • formal argument — (programming)   (Or "parameter") A name in a function or subroutine definition that is replaced by, or bound to, the corresponding actual argument when the function or subroutine is called. In many languages formal arguments behave like local variables which get initialised on entry. See: argument.
  • formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
  • foster daughter — a girl raised like one's own daughter, though not such by birth or adoption.
  • founding father — The founding father of an institution, organization, or idea is the person who sets it up or who first develops it.
  • founding member — A founding member of a club, group, or organization is one of the first members, often one who was involved in setting it up.
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • french guianese — an overseas department of France, on the NE coast of South America: formerly a French colony. 35,135 sq. mi. (91,000 sq. km). Capital: Cayenne.
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • fuzzy computing — fuzzy logic
  • geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
  • get out of jail — to get out of a difficult situation
  • 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.
  • gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • go for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
  • go up in flames — be burned
  • 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
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • linguistic form — any meaningful unit of speech, as a sentence, phrase, word, morpheme, or suffix.
  • long-sufferance — long-suffering.
  • malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • microcentrifuge — A centrifuge used in laboratories to separate materials from small samples (especially of biological material).
  • non-functioning — the kind of action or activity proper to a person, thing, or institution; the purpose for which something is designed or exists; role.
  • 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
  • out of sight of — not in sight
  • out of training — become unfit
  • perforating gun — A perforating gun is a device used to make holes in oil and gas wells in preparation for production.
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
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