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15-letter words containing i, g, l

  • finger spelling — a method of communicating with or among deaf people in which different shapes made with the fingers represent different letters of the alphabet
  • first gentleman — (often initial capital letters) the husband of the U.S. president or a current governor or mayor.
  • fishing village — a village in which fishing is the main industry
  • flag lieutenant — an admiral's ADC
  • flame hardening — the surface hardening of ferrous metals by heating the metal with an oxyacetylene flame followed by rapid cooling
  • flame-arc light — an arc light that uses flame carbons to colour the arc
  • flamingo-flower — a central American plant, Anthurium scherzeranum, of the arum family, having a red, coiled spadix and a bright red, shiny, heart-shaped spathe, grown as an ornamental.
  • flange coupling — a driving coupling between rotating shafts that consists of flanges (or half couplings) one of which is fixed at the end of each shaft, the two flanges being bolted together with a ring of bolts to complete the drive
  • flapping router — (networking)   A router that transmits routing updates alternately advertising a destination network first via one route, then via a different route. Flapping routers are identified on more advanced protocol analysers such as the Network General (TM) Sniffer.
  • flashlight fish — any of several fishes, especially Photoblepharon palpebratus, inhabiting deep, dark waters and having light organs that can be closed with a lid.
  • fleming's rules — two rules used as mnemonics for the relationship between the directions of current flow, motion, and magnetic field in electromagnetic induction. The hand is held with the thumb, first, and second fingers at right angles, respectively indicating the directions of motion, field, and electric current. The left hand is used for electric motors and the right hand for dynamos
  • flibbertigibbet — a chattering or flighty, light-headed person.
  • flight engineer — a member of an aircraft crew responsible for the mechanical systems, fueling, and servicing of the craft.
  • flight of fancy — An idea or statement that is very imaginative but complicated, silly, or impractical can be referred to as a flight of fancy.
  • flight of ideas — a rapid flow of thought, manifested by accelerated speech with abrupt changes from topic to topic: a symptom of some mental illnesses, especially manic disorder.
  • flight recorder — an electronic device aboard an aircraft that automatically records some aspects of the aircraft's performance in flight.
  • flight sergeant — a noncommissioned officer in the Royal Air Force junior in rank to a master aircrew
  • flight shooting — competitive shooting for distance only.
  • 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 island — a dessert consisting of boiled custard with portions of meringue, whipped cream, or whipped egg whites and sometimes jelly floating upon it or around it.
  • floating policy — (in marine insurance) a policy that provides protection of a broad nature for shipments of merchandise and that is valid continuously until canceled.
  • floating screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • flowering maple — any of various shrubs belonging to the genus Abutilon, of the mallow family, having large, bright-colored flowers.
  • flowering plant — a plant that produces flowers, fruit, and seeds; angiosperm.
  • flowering shrub — any shrub that produces flowers
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • flying buttress — a segmental arch transmitting an outward and downward thrust to a solid buttress that through its inertia transforms the thrust into a vertical one.
  • flying characin — hatchetfish (def 2).
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • flying fortress — a heavy bomber, the B-17, with four radial piston engines, widely used over Europe and the Mediterranean by the U.S. Air Force in World War II.
  • flying jib boom — an extension on a jib boom, to which a flying jib is fastened.
  • flying squirrel — any of various nocturnal tree squirrels, as Glaucomys volans, of the eastern U.S., having folds of skin connecting the fore and hind legs, permitting long, gliding leaps.
  • for good or ill — If you say that something is happening or will happen for good or ill, you mean that it is out of anyone's control whether it happens and what its effects will be.
  • forward-looking — planning for or anticipating possible future events, conditions, etc.; progressive.
  • fractionalizing — Present participle of fractionalize.
  • franklin's gull — a black-headed North American gull, Larus pipixcan, feeding chiefly on insects.
  • french marigold — a composite plant, Tagetes patula, of Mexico, having yellow flowers with red markings.
  • fringe festival — an unofficial, often unconventional, arts festival that is associated with another, larger festival
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • gaelic football — an Irish game played with 15 players on each side and goals resembling rugby posts with a net on the bottom part. Players are allowed to kick, punch, and bounce the ball and attempt to get it over the bar or in the net
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
  • galileo galilei — (Galileo Galilei) 1564–1642, Italian physicist and astronomer.
  • gallant soldier — a South American plant, Galinsoga parviflora, widely distributed as a weed, having small daisy-like flowers surrounded by silvery scales: family Asteraceae (composites)
  • galloping-ghost — Harold ("Red"; "the Galloping Ghost") 1903–1991, U.S. football player.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • galvanized iron — iron or steel, especially in sheets, coated with zinc to prevent rust.
  • galvanomagnetic — of or relating to the creation of an electromagnetic field within a conductor, as a metal, or a semiconductor through which an electric current is passed.
  • gambier islands — a group of islands in the S Pacific Ocean, in French Polynesia. Chief settlement: Rikitéa. Pop: 1097 (2002). Area: 30 sq km (11 sq miles)
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