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

  • flirtatiousness — The quality of being flirtatious.
  • floating supply — the aggregate supply of ready-to-market goods or securities.
  • 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.
  • football ground — an area of land where football games are played
  • 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.
  • formation fluid — Formation fluid is fluid in the pores (=tiny holes) of a rock.
  • formation rules — the set of rules that specify the syntax of a formal system; the algorithm that generates the well-formed formulae
  • formularization — The act of formularizing; a formularized or formulated statement or exhibition.
  • foundationalism — (epistemology) The doctrine that beliefs derive justification from certain basic beliefs.
  • fountain valley — a city in SW California.
  • functionability — functional (def 3).
  • functional food — a food containing additives which provide extra nutritional value
  • functional load — the relative frequency of occurrence of words that are differentiated in one and the same position by only one distinctive feature. In English, the opposition of voiced and voiceless th has a low functional load being used only to distinguish such pairs as ether and either, or wreath and wreathe.
  • functional unit — A subsystem of the central processing unit of a computer. E.g. arithmetic and logic unit, memory address register, barrel shifter, register file.
  • functionalistic — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • 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
  • fungistatically — in a fungistatic manner
  • futilitarianism — The belief that all human activity is futile.
  • galactic nebula — a nebula in the Milky Way.
  • gender equality — the state of having the same rights, status, and opportunities as others, regardless of one's gender.
  • 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)
  • 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.
  • gleichschaltung — the enforcement of standardization and the elimination of all opposition within the political, economic, and cultural institutions of a state
  • gram equivalent — the combining power, especially in grams (gram equivalent) of an element or compound, equivalent to hydrogen as a standard of 1.00797 or oxygen as a standard of 8; the atomic weight divided by the valence.
  • gram's solution — (sometimes lowercase) a solution of iodine, potassium iodide, and water, used in staining bacteria.
  • grandiloquently — speaking or expressed in a lofty style, often to the point of being pompous or bombastic.
  • granulitization — the process whereby metamorphism acts on a rock and reduces it to crystalline grains
  • griqualand east — a former district in S South Africa, SW of Natal.
  • griqualand west — a former district in S South Africa, N of the Orange River and W of the Orange Free State: diamonds found 1867.
  • gulf of bothnia — an arm of the Baltic Sea, extending north between Sweden and Finland
  • gulf of taranto — an inlet of the Ionian Sea, in Apulia in SE Italy
  • haemagglutinate — to cause the clumping of red blood cells in (a blood sample)
  • half-understood — partially understood
  • harlequin table — a writing or dressing table having a central set of compartments that rise when drop leaves are raised.
  • hermeneutically — of or relating to hermeneutics; interpretative; explanatory.
  • hubble constant — the ratio of the recessional velocity of galaxies to their distance from the sun, with current measurements of its value ranging from 50 to 100 km/sec per megaparsec.
  • human relations — the study of group behavior for the purpose of improving interpersonal relationships, as among employees.
  • hung parliament — a parliament that does not have a party with a working majority
  • hunting leopard — the cheetah.
  • hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
  • ignatius loyola — Saint Ignatius of (Iñigo López de Loyola) 1491–1556, Spanish soldier and ecclesiastic: founder of the Society of Jesus.
  • immensurability — The quality of being immensurable.
  • immunomodulator — a substance that affects the functioning of the immune system
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