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15-letter words containing g, i, a, f, l, o

  • gulf of finland — an arm of the Baltic Sea between Finland, Estonia, and Russia
  • half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
  • holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
  • holiday feeling — the positive feeling people experience while on holiday and during holiday periods such as the Christmas period
  • in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
  • island grey fox — a similar and related animal, U. littoralis, inhabiting islands off North America
  • lay a finger on — to harm
  • 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.
  • magnolia family — the plant family Magnoliaceae, characterized by evergreen or deciduous trees and shrubs having simple, alternate leaves, often showy flowers with a spiral arrangement of their floral parts, and conelike fruit, and including the cucumber tree, magnolia, tulip tree, and umbrella tree.
  • mahogany family — the plant family Meliaceae, characterized by tropical and subtropical trees and shrubs having alternate, pinnate leaves, usually branched clusters of flowers, and fruit in the form of a berry or leathery capsule, and including the chinaberry, cedars of the genus Cedrela, and mahoganies of the genera Swietenia and Khaya.
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
  • nonself-antigen — any of the antigens present in an individual that originate outside the body (contrasted with self-antigen).
  • poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
  • right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
  • self-abnegation — self-denial or self-sacrifice.
  • self-diagnostic — the diagnosis of one's own malady or illness.
  • self-generation — production or reproduction of something without the aid of an external agent; spontaneous generation.
  • self-immolating — of, relating to, or tending toward self-immolation.
  • 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.
  • sleight of hand — skill in feats requiring quick and clever movements of the hands, especially for entertainment or deception, as jugglery, card or coin magic, etc.; legerdemain.
  • teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
  • vulgar fraction — common fraction.
  • yellow goatfish — a schooling goatfish, Mulloidichthys martinicus, inhabiting the Atlantic Ocean from Florida to Panama.
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