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15-letter words containing l, u, a, n, e

  • equalitarianism — Egalitarianism.
  • estuary english — a variety of standard British English in which the pronunciation reflects various features characteristic of London and the Southeast of England
  • eviction clause — a clause by which a contract or other agreement may be terminated, especially between theatrical producers and theater owners in whose agreements it is often stipulated that when weekly receipts fall below a certain minimum usually for two consecutive weeks, the production must vacate the theater.
  • exhaustlessness — the quality of being exhaustless
  • extralinguistic — Outside the realm of linguistics.
  • fallopian tubes — one of a pair of long, slender ducts in the female abdomen that transport ova from the ovary to the uterus and, in fertilization, transport sperm cells from the uterus to the released ova; the oviduct of higher mammals.
  • false buckthorn — a spiny shrub or small tree, Bumelia lanuginosa, of the sapodilla family, native to the southern U.S., having gummy, milky sap and white, bell-shaped flowers and yielding a hard, light-brown wood.
  • family business — company owned and run by a family
  • fault tolerance — (architecture)   1. The ability of a system or component to continue normal operation despite the presence of hardware or software faults. This often involves some degree of redundancy. 2. The number of faults a system or component can withstand before normal operation is impaired.
  • fauntleroy suit — a formal outfit for a boy composed of a hip-length jacket and knee-length pants, often in black velvet, and a wide, lacy collar and cuffs, usually worn with a broad sash at the waist and sometimes a large, loose bow at the neck, popular in the late 19th century.
  • field ambulance — a mobile medical unit that accepts casualties from forward units, treating the lightly wounded and stabilizing the condition of the seriously wounded before evacuating them to a hospital
  • flag lieutenant — an admiral's ADC
  • 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
  • flannel-mouthed — speaking thickly, as if one's mouth were full of flannel
  • 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.
  • flavourlessness — Alternative spelling of flavorlessness.
  • flavoursomeness — Alt form flavorsomeness.
  • fleet insurance — Fleet insurance is a type of insurance contract that applies to a number of vehicles.
  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • flood insurance — insurance covering loss or damage to property arising from a flood, flood tide, or the like.
  • florida current — the part of the Gulf Stream which extends from the Florida Strait to Cape Hatteras.
  • fluid mechanics — an applied science dealing with the basic principles of gaseous and liquid matter.
  • fluorine dating — a method of determining the relative age of fossil bones found in the same excavation by comparing their fluorine content.
  • 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.
  • formal language — correct or polite words and phrases
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • franklin square — a town on W Long Island, in SE New York.
  • full-moon maple — Japanese maple.
  • fully fashioned — (of stockings, knitwear, etc) shaped and seamed so as to fit closely
  • functionalities — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • fundamental law — the organic law of a state, especially its constitution.
  • fundamentalists — Plural form of fundamentalist.
  • fundamentalness — The state or condition of being fundamental; essential importance.
  • funeral oration — a formal speech delivered at a funeral
  • funeral parlour — A funeral parlour is a place where a funeral director works and where dead people are prepared for burial or cremation.
  • funeral service — ceremony at a burial or cremation
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • galvanic couple — voltaic couple.
  • gaspe peninsula — a peninsula in SE Canada, in Quebec province, between New Brunswick and the St. Lawrence River.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • general journal — A general journal is a journal recording all of the transactions of a business.
  • general studies — a school subject that includes a variety of skills and topics (such as comprehension, and current affairs, which may complement the study of A-levels in specific subjects)
  • general-purpose — useful in many ways; not limited in use or function: a good general-purpose dictionary.
  • gerald mulligan — Gerald Joseph ("Gerry"; "Jeru") 1927–96, U.S. jazz saxophonist, bandleader, and composer.
  • geranium family — the plant family Geraniaceae, typified by herbaceous plants or small shrubs having lobed leaves, showy flowers, and slender, beak-shaped fruit, and including the crane's-bills, stork's-bills, and cultivated geraniums of the genus Pelargonium.
  • 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.
  • glandular fever — infectious mononucleosis.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • go up in flames — be burned
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