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15-letter words containing g, r, a, f, t

  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • floating charge — an unsecured charge on the assets of an enterprise that allows such assets to be used commercially until the enterprise ceases to operate or the creditor intervenes to demand collateral
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • 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
  • 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.
  • fragmentariness — The quality of being fragmentary.
  • fragrance strip — a folded, usually sealed strip on a page or card, impregnated with fragrance that is released when pulled or torn open: The magazine is full of fragrance strips in the advertisements.
  • freight charges — the price charged for conveying goods by freight
  • french togoland — a former United Nations Trust Territory in W Africa, administered by France (1946–60), now the independent republic of Togo
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fringed gentian — a plant of the genus Gentianopsis (or Gentiana), especially G. crinita, having a tubular blue corolla with four fringed petals.
  • front-page news — a story printed on the first page of a newspaper
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • 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.
  • graveyard shift — a work shift usually beginning at about midnight and continuing for about eight hours through the early morning hours.
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • hair of the dog — an alcoholic drink taken as an antidote to a hangover
  • 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.
  • imperfect stage — a phase in the life cycle of certain fungi in which either no spores or asexual spores, as conidia, are produced.
  • 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.
  • irrefragability — How irrefragable something is.
  • 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.
  • margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
  • moreton bay fig — a large Australian fig tree, Ficus macrophylla, having glossy leaves and smooth bark
  • mortgage relief — (formerly) a reduction of tax on income being used to pay off a mortgage
  • negative profit — a financial loss
  • origination fee — a fee charged by a lender for evaluating and processing a loan application, usually a percentage of the face value of the loan.
  • 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.
  • performing arts — dance, drama, music
  • photofluorogram — a recording on photographic film of images produced by a fluoroscopic examination.
  • picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
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