15-letter words containing g, e, f
- surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
- syngeneic graft — a tissue or organ transplanted from one member of a species to another, genetically identical member of the species, as a kidney transplanted from one identical twin to the other.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- thanks offering — an offering made as an expression of thanks to God
- the first thing — even one thing
- the gift of gab — If someone has the gift of gab, they are able to speak easily and confidently, and to persuade people.
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- the-city-of-god — Latin De Civitate Dei. a work in 22 books (a.d. 413–26) by St. Augustine of Hippo, expounding an early Christian view of society and history.
- theory of games — game theory.
- thing-in-itself — reality as it is apart from experience; what remains to be postulated after space, time, and all the categories of the understanding are assigned to consciousness. Compare noumenon (def 3).
- tiffany setting — a setting, as in a ring, in which the stone is held with prongs.
- tightfistedness — the quality or state of being tightfisted
- to fly the flag — If you fly the flag, you show that you are proud of your country, or that you support a particular cause, especially when you are in a foreign country or when few other people do.
- to get ahold of — to manage to find, contact, or obtain someone or something
- to go for broke — If you go for broke, you take the most extreme or risky of the possible courses of action in order to try and achieve success.
- traffic manager — a person who supervises the transportation of goods for an employer.
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- ultracentrifuge — a high-speed centrifuge for subjecting sols or solutions to forces many times that of gravity and producing concentration differences depending on the weight of the micelle or molecule.
- underfulfilling — falling short of satisfactory
- unforgivingness — not disposed to forgive or show mercy; unrelenting.
- upright freezer — a freezer that is tall rather than wide
- van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
- vegetable knife — a knife designed to cut up vegetables
- viewing figures — the number of people watching a television programme
- wager of battle — (in medieval Britain) a pledge to do battle for a cause, esp to decide guilt or innocence by single combat
- waterford glass — fine cut or gilded glass made in Waterford, Ireland, having a slight blue cast due to the presence of cobalt.
- weatherproofing — Present participle of weatherproof.
- well-thought-of — highly esteemed; of good reputation: a well-thought-of scholar; This new book is well-thought-of.
- witch of agnesi — a plane curve symmetrical about the y- axis and asymptotic to the x- axis, given by the equation x 2 y =4 a 2 (2 a − y).
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason
- yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.