15-letter words containing n, o, i, f, e
- furniture store — shop: sells furnishings
- gale-force wind — a wind of force seven to ten on the Beaufort scale or from 45 to 90 kilometres per hour
- general officer — an officer ranking above colonel.
- 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.
- gift of tongues — speaking in tongues.
- go up in flames — be burned
- goal difference — the number of goals scored by a team minus the number of goals it has conceded
- golden starfish — an award given to a bathing beach that meets EU standards of cleanliness
- goodness of fit — the extent to which observed sample values of a variable approximate to values derived from a theoretical density, often measured by a chi-square test
- grade inflation — the awarding of higher grades than students deserve either to maintain a school's academic reputation or as a result of diminished teacher expectations.
- grecian profile — a profile distinguished by the absence of the hollow between the upper ridge of the nose and the forehead, thereby forming a straight line.
- green footprint — the impact of a building on the environment
- griffith-joyner — Florence, known as Flojo. 1959–98, US sprinter, winner of two gold medals at the 1988 Olympic Games
- gunnery officer — an officer in charge of heavy guns
- half wellington — a loose boot extending to just above the ankle and usually worn under the trousers.
- half-round file — a file having a semicircular cross-section
- hanging offence — a crime that is punishable by hanging
- hard of hearing — partially deaf
- heave-off hinge — loose-joint hinge.
- high definition — a system for screen display of images that are sharper and more detailed than normal, having many more than the standard number of scanning lines per frame: Most TV shows are available in high definition. Abbreviation: HD. See also high-definition television.
- high-definition — High-definition television or technology is a digital system that gives a much clearer picture than traditional television systems.
- 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
- housewifization — The process by which the division of labor has relegated women into housewives.
- housing benefit — In Britain, housing benefit is money that the government gives to people with no income or very low incomes to pay for part or all of their rent.
- hyperfunctional — of or relating to a function or functions: functional difficulties in the administration.
- identifications — Plural form of identification.
- if nothing else — You can say 'if nothing else' to indicate that what you are mentioning is, in your opinion, the only good thing in a particular situation.
- immunodeficient — Exhibiting immunodeficiency.
- in deference to — out of regard or respect for (a person or the person's position or wishes)
- in dependent of — not influenced or controlled by others in matters of opinion, conduct, etc.; thinking or acting for oneself: an independent thinker.
- in line of duty — in the performance of authorized or prescribed military duty
- in spite of sth — You use in spite of to introduce a fact which makes the rest of the statement you are making seem surprising.
- in the event of — something that happens or is regarded as happening; an occurrence, especially one of some importance.
- in the hands of — under the control of
- in the light of — in view of, given
- in the midst of — amid, among
- in the shape of — You can use in the shape of to state exactly who or what you are referring to, immediately after referring to them in a general way.
- in the teeth of — (in most vertebrates) one of the hard bodies or processes usually attached in a row to each jaw, serving for the prehension and mastication of food, as weapons of attack or defense, etc., and in mammals typically composed chiefly of dentin surrounding a sensitive pulp and covered on the crown with enamel.
- in the thick of — in the midst of: a fight, etc.
- inch of mercury — a unit of atmospheric pressure, being the pressure equal to that exerted by a column of mercury one inch high under standard conditions of temperature and gravity: 33.864 millibars. Abbreviation: in. Hg.
- indemnification — the act of indemnifying; state of being indemnified.
- inefficaciously — Without efficacy or effect.
- inertial fusion — a type of nuclear fusion in which the inertia of matter enables it to fuse by impact, as by pulses of laser radiation or high-energy charged particles, rather than by high temperature
- inferior planet — either of the two planets whose orbits are inside the orbit of the earth: Venus and Mercury.
- inflation rider — An inflation rider is a rider that can be added to a long-term care insurance plan that adjusts the benefits over time to allow for inflation.
- information age — a period beginning about 1975 and characterized by the gathering and almost instantaneous transmission of vast amounts of information and by the rise of information-based industries.
- informativeness — giving information; instructive: an informative book.
- infoword office — (tool) A suite of applications for Unix including a word processor, spreadsheet and database.
- inoffensiveness — The state or condition of being inoffensive.