15-letter words containing g, u, f, a
- 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.
- 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 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
- holding furnace — a small furnace for holding molten metal produced in a larger melting furnace at a desired temperature for casting.
- 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.
- 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
- long-sufferance — long-suffering.
- malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
- margaritiferous — yielding or wearing pearls
- off one's guard — to keep safe from harm or danger; protect; watch over: to guard the ruler.
- 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.
- picture-framing — the job of framing photos, paintings etc
- poultry farming — breeding and keeping fowl
- qualifying exam — any examination that one needs to pass in order to begin or continue with a course of study
- quarantine flag — a yellow flag, designating the letter Q in the International Code of Signals: flown by itself to signify that a ship has no disease on board and requests a pratique, or flown with another flag to signify that there is disease on board ship.
- reconfiguration — to change the shape or formation of; remodel; restructure.
- refugee capital — money from abroad invested, esp for a short term, in the country offering the highest interest rate
- right of asylum — the right of alien fugitives to protection or nonextradition in a country or its embassy.
- rightabout-face — a turning directly about so as to face in the opposite direction
- ruby grapefruit — a grapefruit with red flesh
- self-regulating — adjusting, ruling, or governing itself without outside interference; operating or functioning without externally imposed controls or regulations: a self-regulating economy; the self-regulating market.
- 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.
- self-regulative — used for or capable of controlling or adjusting oneself or itself: a self-regulative device.
- self-regulatory — Self-regulatory systems, organizations, or activities are controlled by the people involved in them, rather than by outside organizations or rules.
- self-sustaining — self-supporting.
- semi-figurative — of the nature of or involving a figure of speech, especially a metaphor; metaphorical and not literal: The word “head” has several figurative senses, as in “She's the head of the company.”. Synonyms: metaphorical, not literal, symbolic.
- star of courage — a Canadian award for bravery
- sulfiting agent — sulfite (def 2).
- surface grammar — grammar understood at the level of normal communication, rather than at the underlying level of 'deep' semantic and syntactic analysis
- the magic flute — an opera (1791) by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.
- through traffic — traffic which continues on a road or highway rather than crossing onto a different road
- transfer lounge — the place in an airport where you wait for a transfer from one flight to another
- transfiguration — the act of transfiguring.
- 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.
- van diemen gulf — an inlet of the Timor Sea in N Australia, in the Northern Territory
- vulgar fraction — common fraction.
- wrongful arrest — the act of arresting someone without proper reason