15-letter words containing g, a, f, t, o
- floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
- flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
- fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
- football ground — an area of land where football games are played
- football league — highest-level soccer competition
- fore-topgallant — being a sail, yard, or rigging belonging to a fore-topgallant mast.
- 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.
- 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.
- fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
- french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
- front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
- gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
- 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.
- gatefold sleeve — a record sleeve that opens out like a book
- get any good of — to handle to good effect
- get out of jail — to get out of a difficult situation
- get the hang of — to understand the technique of doing something
- 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 the gab — ability to speak effortlessly, glibly, or persuasively
- go for a burton — to be broken, useless, or lost
- godfather offer — a takeover bid pitched so high that the management of the target company is unable to dissuade shareholders from accepting it
- 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
- grapes of wrath — a novel (1939) by John Steinbeck.
- gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
- gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
- 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.
- 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.
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- 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.
- joint financing — the provision of funds for a project, etc, from two or more sources
- 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
- leapfrog attack — Use of userid and password information obtained illicitly from one host (e.g. downloading a file of account IDs and passwords, tapping TELNET, etc.) to compromise another host. Also, the act of TELNETting through one or more hosts in order to confuse a trace (a standard cracker procedure).
- legacy software — legacy system
- lift-drag ratio — the ratio of the lift to the drag of an airfoil.
- limiting factor — Physiology. the slowest, therefore rate-limiting, step in a process or reaction involving several steps.
- magnesioferrite — (mineralogy) A magnesium iron oxide mineral, a member of the magnetite series of spinels, which forms black metallic octahedral crystals.
- make a thing of — to make a fuss about; exaggerate the importance of
- make nothing of — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- mess of pottage — a material gain involving the sacrifice of a higher value