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15-letter words containing l, t, d

  • endocrinologist — A person who is skilled at, or practices endocrinology.
  • endonucleolytic — relating to endonuclease
  • ennerdale water — a lake in NW England, in Cumbria in the Lake District. Length: 4 km (2.5 miles)
  • epidemiologists — Plural form of epidemiologist.
  • ethylenediamine — A viscous liquid used in making detergents and emulsifying agents.
  • eudiometrically — By means of or in terms of eudiometry.
  • evaporated milk — concentrated dairy product
  • extended family — relatives
  • extended pascal — A superset of ANSI and ISO Pascal with many enhancements, including modules, separate compilation, type schemata, variable-length strings, direct-access files, complex numbers, initial values, constant expressions. ANSI/IEEE770X3.160-1989 and ISO 10206.
  • external degree — a degree gained by a student who studies extramurally
  • extrajudicially — Outside of the legal system.
  • extraordinarily — In an extraordinary manner.
  • faculty advisor — a member of the faculty who gives advice to students
  • faint-heartedly — nervously
  • false decretals — the Pseudo-Isidorian documents.
  • feelgood factor — When journalists refer to the feelgood factor, they mean that people are feeling hopeful and optimistic about the future.
  • fetal diagnosis — prenatal determination of genetic or chemical abnormalities in a fetus, esp by amniocentesis
  • field artillery — artillery mobile enough to accompany troops in the field.
  • field intensity — the vector sum of all forces exerted by a field on a unit mass, unit charge, unit magnetic pole, etc., at a given point within the field.
  • field woundwort — the plant Stachys arvensis
  • fight windmills — to fight imaginary evils or opponents
  • file descriptor — (programming, operating system)   An integer that identifies an open file within a process. This number is obtained as a result of opening a file. Operations which read, write, or close a file would take the file descriptor as an input parameter. In many operating system implementations, file descriptors are small integers which index a table of open files. In Unix, file descriptors 0, 1 and 2 correspond to the standard input, standard output and standard error files respectively. See file descriptor leak.
  • first world war — World War I.
  • fit as a fiddle — a musical instrument of the viol family.
  • fixed liability — a liability, as a mortgage or debenture, that will not mature for a relatively long time.
  • fixed satellite — a satellite in a geostationary orbit
  • flame retardant — a compound used in cloth and plastic material to raise the ignition point of the material, thus making it resistant to fire.
  • flame-retardant — Flame-retardant is the same as fire-retardant.
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • flatbed scanner — a type of optical scanner having a flat, stationary surface on which a page is scanned by a moving head.
  • 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.
  • 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 screed — Building Trades. screed (def 3).
  • floods of tears — If you say that someone was in floods of tears or in a flood of tears, you are emphasizing that they were crying with great intensity because they were very upset.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluoridationist — One who supports the addition of fluoride to the public water supply.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • flying dutchman — a legendary Dutch ghost ship supposed to be seen at sea, especially near the Cape of Good Hope.
  • follow-up study — a second study made as a follow-up to an initial study
  • food supplement — a substance designed to make up for a deficiency in one's diet
  • food technology — a branch of technology that is involved in the production of food
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • forecastle deck — a partial weather deck on top of a forecastle superstructure; topgallant forecastle.
  • forecastle head — the extreme fore part of a forecastle superstructure.
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • fort lauderdale — a city in SE Florida: seashore resort.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • fraternal order — men's organization
  • free-tailed bat — any of various small, swift, insect-eating bats of the family Molossidae, common in warm climates, having thick, leathery ears and a tail that projects well beyond the tail membrane.
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