15-letter words containing h, a, l, f, n
- health benefits — positive effects on health
- heavenly father — a term used to address or refer to God
- 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
- hook of holland — a cape and the harbor it forms in the SW Netherlands.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- in nothing flat — no thing; not anything; naught: to say nothing.
- infants' school — kindergarten.
- infeasible path — dead code
- law of the mean — the theorem that for a function continuous on a closed interval and differentiable on the corresponding open interval, there is a point in the interval such that the difference in functional values at the endpoints is equal to the derivative evaluated at the particular point and multiplied by the difference in the endpoints.
- lay of the land — the general state or condition of affairs under consideration; the facts of a situation: We asked a few questions to get the lay of the land.
- left-hand drive — A left-hand drive vehicle has the steering wheel on the left side, and is designed to be used in countries where people drive on the right-hand side of the road.
- lichenification — a leathery hardening of the skin, usually caused by chronic irritation.
- lie of the land — the topography of the land
- 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.
- malpighian tuft — glomerulus (def 2).
- multnomah falls — a waterfall on Multnomah Creek in NW Oregon, E of Portland. 611 feet (186 meters) high.
- not lift a hand — to do nothing; not even try
- not the half of — only a small part of
- on the trail of — If you are on the trail of a person or thing, you are trying hard to find them or find out about them.
- pine leaf aphid — any of various homopterous insects of the family Adelgidae, as Adelges abietis (spruce gall aphid) and Pineus pinifoliae (pine leaf aphid) that feed and form galls on conifers.
- plain of sharon — a plain in W Israel, between the Mediterranean and the hills of Samaria, extending from Haifa to Tel Aviv
- plant-hire firm — a company that hires out mobile mechanical equipment for construction, road-making, etc
- ranfurly shield — (in New Zealand) the premier rugby trophy, competed for annually by provincial teams
- rheinland-pfalz — German name of Rhineland-Palatinate.
- saffian leather — leather made of sheepskin or goatskin tanned with sumac and usually dyed a bright color
- schlieffen plan — a plan intended to ensure German victory over a Franco-Russian alliance by holding off Russia with minimal strength and swiftly defeating France by a massive flanking movement through the Low Countries, devised by Alfred, Count von Schlieffen (1833–1913) in 1905
- self-abhorrence — a feeling of extreme repugnance or aversion; utter loathing; abomination.
- self-banishment — to expel from or relegate to a country or place by authoritative decree; condemn to exile: He was banished to Devil's Island.
- shove-halfpenny — a shuffleboard game played with coins or brass disks that are pushed by the hand and thumb down a board toward a scoring pit.
- 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.
- spanish trefoil — alfalfa.
- teaching fellow — a holder of a teaching fellowship.
- the black ferns — the women's international Rugby Union football team of New Zealand
- time and a half — a rate of pay for overtime work equal to one and one half times the regular hourly wage.
- walking catfish — an Asian catfish, Clarias batrachus, that can survive out of water and move overland from one body of water to another: introduced into Florida.
- walnut husk fly — any of several fruit flies, as Rhagoletis completa, the larvae of which feed on and discolor walnut husks.
- white zinfandel — a medium-sweet rosé wine made from zinfandel grapes.